"Pack everything. We leave at once for Brussels."
The maid said, with peculiar demureness:
"And Monsieur, Madame?"
Her mistress told her:
"Monsieur has gone to call upon his bankers."
The maid responded with even greater demureness:
"Madame should know that in her absence Monsieur endeavored——"
Madame said hastily:
"Pay no heed. These are customs common in Roumania!"
The woman continued, bridling with all the scorn Lesbia's waiting-maid feels for the penniless gallant: