“Martinelli.”
“Quite so; through Lord Spencer, who is a member. I would not become one.”
“Why not?”
“Because I don’t like argument.”
“My taste runs the other way, so I shall try to get in.”
“By the way, M. de Seingalt, do you know that you are a very extraordinary man?”
“For what reason, my lord?”
“You shut yourself up for a whole month with a woman who spent fourteen months in London without anybody making her acquaintance or even discovering her nationality. All the amateurs have taken a lively interest in the affair.”
“How did you find out that she spent fourteen months in London?”
“Because several persons saw her in the house of a worthy widow where she spent the first month. She would never have anything to say to any advances, but the bill in your window worked wonders.”