"Oh, I can tell you a deal about the Emperors," offered the Colonel. "Alexander, now, is - let us say - a trifle difficult."
He was interrupted. "Tell me immediately what you have been doing!" commanded Judith. "Dancing," he replied.
"Dancing!"
"And dining."
"You are most provoking. Are you pledged to secrecy? If so, of course I won't ask you any awkward questions."
"Not in the least," said the Colonel cheerfully. "Life —Vienna was one long ball. I have been devoting a neat part of my time to the quadrille. L'Ete, la Poule, : grande ronde - I have all the steps, I assure you."
"You must be a very odd sort of an aide-de-camp!" I:le remarked. "Does not the Duke object?"
"Object?" said the Colonel. "Of course not! He likes William Lennox would tell you that the excellence of pas de zephyr is the only thing that has more than once saved him from reprimand."
"But seriously, Charles -?"
"On my honour!"