“I do know.”
“Well, think a moment,” commanded Mme. Chambannes familiarly, rolling her .
M. Raindal was not trying to find the answer but thought to himself.
“She is very attractive but somewhat silly!”
What he said aloud, imitating her tone, was:
“No, I really ca think what it is.”
Then she resigned herself and voiced her secret, her final surprise, and indeed her pretext for further acquaintanceship, her supreme bait. Well! precisely, next winter, she intended to travel with her husband, to go to Cairo, Alexandria and the Nile. M. Rainda book had come in most handy, at the precise moment when she was beginning to study the Egyptian antiquities in view of that expected trip and naturally....
“My dear lady,” a guttural voice interrupted them. “Forgive me.... Would you be kind enough to introduce me to Monsieur....”
“Why, of course!”
Then she made the presentations.