A few minutes are all that I shall ask of you.

I am beginning to find city affairs so interesting." They were alone by now and Louise raised her veil, raised it so high that he could see her eyes.

She leaned back in her chair, supporting her chin with the long, exquisite fingers of her right hand.

She looked at him thoughtfully.
"You have examined the pocket-book ?" she asked.
"I have." "And the document was there ?" "The document was there," he admitted.

"Perhaps you can tell me how it would be addressed ?" Looking at her closely, it came to him that her indifference was assumed.