CHAPTER VI
"FOR EVERY MAN THERE IS JUST ONE WOMAN"
When Sophie, having donned a smoke-gray kimono and brushed her shining hair, went down to Diana, she expected to find her pensive. She found her, instead, with various little white jars and silver bottles set before her on her dressing table.
"When a woman takes to cold cream, Sophie," she remarked, as her friend came in, "it's a deadly sign. It shows that she has found her first wrinkle."
"Diana, how can you! You know that you are beautiful without such aids."
"When I was in Paris," Diana continued, "I was persuaded into buying these. I was told that they held the secret of perpetual youth."
"Perpetual youth is from the heart, Diana."
"Then my heart is as old as the ages."
Diana was gazing into the mirror, which reflected her tired face.