‘And alone in a Swiss ’otel!’
‘My goodness!’
‘And a steamer too.’
‘Well, there! I’ll never trust any one again.’
‘Oh, a perfec’ pair of scorchers. But I’ll let ’im see as I knows it. I’ll put that Times before ’im to-night at dinner as sure as my name’s John.’
‘And a good lesson to them, too! If you didn’t say you’d ’eard it from their own lips, John, I never could ’ave believed it. It’s things like that as shakes your trust in ’uman nature.’
Maude and Frank were lingering at the table d’hôte over their walnuts and a glass of port wine, when their waiter came softly behind them.
‘Beg pardon, sir, but did you see it in the Times?’
‘See what?’
‘That, sir. I thought that it might be of interest to you and to your good lady to see it.’