[Valet returns with vodka and cigarettes, which he places on a table, immediately withdrawing.]
VASILI
[with a keen glance at PIKE]
And you; I suppose you dined with the charming young lady, your ward, and her brother, as you expected?
PIKE
[turning away sadly]
Oh no, they've got friends of their own here.[pg 123]
VASILI
So I have observed.
[Sips vodka.]