"That is quite different," said the countess.
Madame de Gandry shrugged her shoulders and turned away and the countess beckoned to her cousin Sempaly. "I am heartily sick of the whole business," she exclaimed. "At home I have got this sort of thing up a score of times, and everything has gone well ... while here...."
"Yes, there is more method among us," replied Sempaly sympathetically.
"The people here are so unmanageable; every one wants to play the best parts," said the countess.
"That is the result of the republican element," observed Sempaly.
"And now there is all this difficulty about the Lady Jane Grey tableau," sighed the countess. "Why need that English girl take the measles now, just when she is wanted."
"The English are always so inconsiderate," said Sempaly gravely.
"Do you happen to have met this little Sterzl girl?"
"Yes."
"What does she look like?"