"Yes, thank you. Are you telling fortunes with the cards?" Marie asked, timidly as the woman began studying the table once more.
"Yes."
"Then you really believe in them?"
"They're the only thing I do believe in," was the weary response.
"That's funny!" exclaimed the maid, with a nervous little smile. "I don't believe in them at all!"
"You will!" was the grim comment.
"Oh, it's like palmistry and all that sort of thing. It's all nonsense."
Jacqueline looked up at her pityingly.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" she declared, a little thickly. The ether and absinthe were beginning to work more powerfully.
"What do the cards tell you?" asked Marie, growing interested. Jacqueline gazed over the table again.