“Yes,” said Mme. de Renette, severely.
“You didn’t pay any attention to his nonsense?”
“About the dark woman?” inquired Mme. de Renette.
“Why, there’s no other woman dark or light—“
“I don’t know whether there is or not, Richard,” said Mme. de Renette, with icy distinctness; “but I know that there won’t be, after—well, sir, could you break your June engagement for—me?”
And Zozo was justified.
AN OLD, OLD STORY.