"Is my dossier necessary, Excellency?" she muttered, with bowed head.

----"named Wishart," he continued relentlessly. "You were next heard of in Constantinople, where you were a part of the household of Mustapha Bey----"

"Excellency----!"

"In Paris, whither you fled with a French rug agent named Dunois, you met the Duc de Noailles----"

"Excellency, I pray that you----"

----"who shot himself, when you ran away to Austria with----"

"For the love of God, Excellency----"

----"with Baron Meyerling of the Embassy. But he repudiated you when he discovered that his secretary----"

"Excellency, enough. I will vote----"

"How--Madame----?"