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 —[Looks down at his list.] I'm pleased to see how clever you have been Butler, motor car, private dwelling, white gloves. I didn't know

—You didn't know?

—No.

—But the whole city knows

—Let us not talk about that, Paula. The important thing is that you are happy. Is his excellency well?

—[Nervously.] He is a perfect gentleman. One must say that for him.

—Certainly.

—After he had gone to the trouble and expense of buying and furnishing a whole house for me You probably know the place that little mansion in Biedermeyer style that belonged to the late Count Schattenheim

—Yes

—He bought it for me and furnished it beautifully and then he had the tact to go off to Monte Carlo. And when he got there he sent me a thousand-word telegram.

—A thousand. That's a lot of words.

—A telegram to the effect that he had gone off because he didn't wish to influence my decision in any way I must be free to shape my own destiny, he said The mansion was mine