“It vas good of you to come up to town jost to see me,” said the Baron.
“I'd have crossed Europe, Baron!”
The Baron smiled faintly. Evidently he was scarcely in his most florid humor.
“I vish I could have asked you to my club, Bonker.”
“Are you dissatisfied with mine?”
“Oh, no, no! But—— vell, ze fact is, it vould be reported by some one if I took you to ze Regents. Bonker, she does have me watched!”
“The Baroness?”
“Her mozzer.”
“The deuce, Baron!”
The diplomatist gloomily sipped his wine.