"Sarah, am I beautiful?"
"Ah, madame, all the world...."
"Bother the world. What do you think?"
"I? Madame is more than beautiful. She is famous. She is good. She is worthy of a good man, of many healthy children."
Her mistress laughed. "Thanks, Sarah. That is all I wished to know."
"Will madame continue wearing this make-up?"
"I shall change it for another in the cab that takes us from the dock to the train to-morrow."
When the ship lay alongside her pier the following afternoon Mathison put in his buttonhole the bit of green ribbon. Then he rang for the steward, assigned the cage and one of the two kit-bags to his care, took the other himself, and went up on deck to bid Mrs. Chester good-by.
"Good-by," she said from behind a heavy veil. "You will not forget me?"