[She turns the hands of her gloves back and sips coffee, MARIANO serving.]
HAWCASTLE
[continuing]
But I didn't mean Almeric. I meant my august sister-in-law.
[He reads the paper.]
MADAME DE CHAMPIGNY
[smiling]
The amiable Lady Victoria Hermione Trevelyan Creech has déjeuner in her apartment. What you find to read?
HAWCASTLE
I'm such a duffer at Italian, but [pg 022] apparently the people along the coast are having a scare over an escaped convict—a Russian.