'But won't you take her to Mont Blanc and Chamounix, and to see the Matterhorn, where those people were lost?' said Mrs. Coles, whose breath seemed to be taken away.
'Of course. But the mountains are just as good where people have not been lost.'
'Have you been to all these other places already, Duke?' Primrose asked.
'More than once, some of them. I have walked there for weeks with Heinert,' he added, turning to Hazel with again the change of tone.
'And that is your wife's travelling clock!' said Mrs. Coles. 'It seems to me you are betimes about your preparations.'
'Always a good way,' said Dane coolly.
'It is a fine thing to be rich!' the lady went on, gazing at the clock.
'You are just about as rich as I am,' said Dane in the same tone.
'I! As you!!'
'Practically.'