"You need not couple yourself with your brother, Marius. I do not hate you."
"Why should you, madam?" he asked.
She laughed to think he did not remember the very good cause she had to hate him, and caught the gaudy domino together across her breast.
"What do you mean to do in this business?" she said. "Drift—drift, like all your noble house?"
Then she was suddenly quiet, and Marius turned in the direction of her narrowed glance.
In the tall doorway stood the Earl, wrapped in a pink domino, with a mask in his hand.
"Is that you, Marius?" he asked, in a weary tone, and did not even glance at his wife, shrinking away from him.
Marius strode up to his brother.
"I have been searching for you. Susannah wishes to speak to you."