Moriaz.
For the first time the count addressed himself directly to her, saying, with a smile: "How is this, mademoiselle?
You are a woman, and you love justice!" "This astonishes you, monsieur ?" she rejoined.

"You do not think justice one of our virtues ?" "A woman of my acquaintance," he replied, "always maintained that it would be rendering a very bad service to this poor world of ours to suppress all injustice, because with the same stroke would also be suppressed all charity." "That is not my opinion," said she.

"When I give, it seems to me that I make restitution." "She is somewhat of a socialist," cried M.Moriaz.

"I perceive it every January in making out her accounts, and it is fortunate that she intrusts this to me, for she never takes the trouble to look at the memorandum her banker sends her." "I am proud for Poland that Mlle.

Moriaz has a Polish failing," said Abel Larinski, gallantly.
"Is it a failing ?" queried Antoinette.
"Arithmetic is the most beautiful of the sciences and the mother of certainty," said M.Moriaz.And turning towards the count, he added: "She is very wrong-headed, this girl of mine; she holds absolutely revolutionary principles, dangerous to public order and the preservation of society.