"Your only ambition, Philippe?"
"For the moment," answered Philip sweetly. "All things pall on one after a time."
"Save the greatest ambition?" Saint-Dantin's eyes were purely mischievous.
"You are as inquisitive as a monkey," said Philip, and propelled him into the card-room.
"For how long has that fellow lorded it here?" asked Bancroft of his friend.
M. de Chambert flicked one great cuff with his handkerchief.
"Oh, some months! He is refreshing, is it not so? So young, so lovable."
"Lovable be damned!" said Bancroft.
De Chambert looked at him in surprise.