“I? Nonsense! Why should you ask?”
“It would be just like you, you know. Besides, I hear that the man was tall and good-looking.”
“You are exceedingly complimentary. But the world is peopled with tall, good-looking men.”
“Pas tant que ça,” laughed the baroness. “Well, if it was not you, perhaps it was that man who is just coming in.”
Involuntarily Barouffski turned, while a footman bawled:
“Monsieur Verplank!”