“Do you use a watch, my lord?” asked Euphrosyne, in a tone which always seemed to Lothair one of mocking artlessness.
“I believe I never wound it up when I had one,” said Lothair.
“But you make such good use of your time,” said Madame Phoebus, “you do not require watches.”
“I am glad to hear I make good use of my time,” said Lothair, “but a little surprised.”
“But you are so good, so religious,” said Madame Phoebus. “That is a great thing; especially for one so young.”
“Hem!” said Lothair.
“That must have been a beautiful procession at Rome,” said Euphrosyne.
“I was rather a spectator of it than an actor in it,” said Lothair, with some seriousness. “It is too long a tale to enter into, but my part in those proceedings was entirely misrepresented.”
“I believe that nothing in the newspapers is ever true,” said Madame Phoebus.
“And that is why they are so popular,” added Euphrosyne; “the taste of the age being so decidedly for fiction.”