"My girl was charming.... Honestly, I'd marry her in a minute." He laughed a merry laugh.
"Let's take a cab somewhere."
They climbed into a victoria and told the driver to go to the Madeleine.
"Look, before I do anything else I must go to the hotel."
"Why?"
"Preventives."
"Of course; you'd better go at once."
The cab rattled merrily along the streets where the early sunshine cast rusty patches on the grey houses and on the thronged fantastic chimney-pots that rose in clusters and hedges from the mansard roofs.