"I am not a Duke."
"That's true, but you would come right next."
"And you! Oh, Chloe, in that hat! But why is your hair cut short?"
Mrs. Van Adam laughed, and took off the scarlet and black hat.
"It was so hot on our plantation in Florida that I wanted to have as little about me as possible," she said.
"It makes you look just like a boy!"
"I'll grow it again here."
"Have you brought a maid?"
"No. I want to engage a London woman."
"Come and sit down. It is so strange for us to be together again. How many years is it since we were schoolgirls in Paris, getting education instead of gowns? And now——"