“Ridiculous!”
“There! now you have made me blot Faustus.”
At this moment the room-door suddenly opened, and as suddenly shut.
“Who was that?”
“Mephistopheles, or Mrs. Felix Lorraine; one or the other, perhaps both.”
“What!”
“What do you think of Mrs. Felix Lorraine, Miss Manvers?”
“Oh! I think her a very amusing woman, a very clever woman a very—but—”
“But what?”
“But I cannot exactly make her out.”