"You never looked so well in your life," she exclaimed with sincerity. "I declare, Lottie, you are back to the sprightliness of girlhood. Paris certainly agrees with you."
Lottie smiled. "I have had two great rejuvenators this year--Paris and a good conscience."
Fritzie could not resist. "Do they go together, Lottie?" she asked.
Lottie responded with perfect ease: "Only when one is still young, dear. I shouldn't dare recommend them to mature persons."
"You felt no risk in the matter yourself?" suggested Fritzie.
"Not in the least," laughed Lottie, pushing down her slender girdle. But she was too happy to quarrel and had returned resolved to have only friends. "You must tell me all about poor Robert." She turned, as she spoke to Dolly, with a sudden sympathy in her tender eyes. "I have thought so much about his troubles. And I am just crazy to see the poor fellow. What is he doing?"
"He is in town for a few days, just now. But he has been away for two months--with the yacht."
"Where?"
"No one knows. Somewhere along the coast, I suppose."
"With whom?"