"The girl is a perfect minx! This summer at Biarritz, she and that Fonseca boy behaved in such a way on the terrace of the Casino at night, that they would have been worth photographing by a flash light!"
"Why, Cobo, there, before he left, figured in some dissolving views in the garden."
"Alas! too true; that girl compromised me desperately," said Cobo in a tone of comical despair.
"Well, you had not much to lose. You lost your character by that affair with Teresa," said Alcantara.
"Beauty and misfortune always go hand in hand," Ramon added ironically.
"Et tu, Ramon!" exclaimed Cobo with affected surprise. "Why the time is surely coming when the birds will carry guns."
"Well, gentlemen, I confess my weakness," said Leon Guzman. "I cannot go near that girl without feeling ill."
"And the damsel cannot be near so sweet and fair a youth as you without feeling ill too," said Alcantara.
"Do you want to flatter me, Rafael?"
"Yes; into lending me the key of your rooms to-morrow, and not coming in all the afternoon. I want it."