"Did you want Mrs. Shiffney to come so particularly?" Claude asked, not without surprise.
"Yes, I did. Not for myself, of course. I don't pretend to be fond of her, though I don't dislike her! But she ought to have come after accepting. People thought she was coming to-night. I wonder why she rushed off to Paris like that?"
"I should think it was probably something to do with the Senniers. Max Elliot told me just now that she lives and breathes Sennier."
Claude spoke with a quiet humor, and quite without anger.
"Max does exactly the same," said Charmian. "It really becomes rather silly—in a man."
"But Sennier is worth it. Nothing spurious about him."
"I never said there was. But still—Margot is rather tiresome, too, with her rages first for this person and then for the other."
"Who is it now?"
"Oh, she's Sennier-mad like the others."
"Still?"