‘Great Scott! that is too American; you ask too much.’
‘I ask just enough, and you will accede to my request.’
The two men looked at each other, then our functionary walked away with his diplomatic courtesy a little ruffled. A moment later he was introducing to Monsieur Dembevetskoi, ‘My friend, Monsieur Robert Dudley.’
In turn, Robert was presented to Madame. The diplomat, once in action, never flinched fire, and he now engaged the Russian in an absorbing conversation, while Madame Dembevetskoi, holding with one hand her gray fur wrap, which was slipping from her, stretched out her other hand, and said, breathlessly:
‘Oh, Monsieur Dudley, please give me back my scarf!’
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