She looked at him quickly.
"But you have told me this in confidence. How can I approach the subject and yet keep confidence?"
"You flatter me most delicately by asking my advice on such a matter. Is it not true that a woman can frame her questions so that a man is compelled to answer?"
"Some men, perhaps."
"Captain Ellerey, I think," said the Ambassador.
"Under certain conditions."
"Exactly," he answered.
"When the questions are asked by one particular woman," she said.
"You have caught my meaning exactly, Countess."
"But as it happens, Lord Cloverton, I am not the one particular woman."