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. I beg your pardon. I thought I saw you talking with him at the Casino last evening.

. Oh, many times ! But not before my husband.

. But I have often seen your husband talking with him.

. Frequently. But never before me.

. English propriety is more complicated than I had imagined.

. It is respectability.

. [To ] I am in no humor for trifling this evening. Frankly, I am bored. You have no idea how bored I am.

. But you are dying to tell me.

. Artists are such dangerous confidants. Afterward, they reveal all one's secrets to the public.

. I am a sculptor. What secrets have you that my art could reveal to the public ? By the way, you would make an admirable Juno.

. You told me Minerva yesterday.

. It may be Venus to-morrow; everything in its season.

. You might have worse models.

. I defer to your authority.

. I warn you that I am wearing no stays; this is support à la grècquegrecque [sic].

. Now you are encroaching upon my domain. Only spiritual confidences, if you please.

. Why do you suppose that I am here this evening?

. How should I know? Probably because you were invited to dinner by Prince Michael, like the rest of us, to celebrate the arrival of his sister, the Princess Alex-