This page has been validated.
VI.]
THE EUROPEANS.
229
path?" she asked, rearranging the rosebud in her corsage.
"The greatest of all that of having been so agreeable—"
"That I shall be unable to depart? Don't be too sure. I have left some very agreeable people over there."
"Ah," said Acton, "but it was to come here, where I am!"
"I didn't know of your existence. Excuse me for saying anything so rude; but, honestly speaking, I did not. No," the Baroness pursued, "it was precisely not to see you—such people as you—that I came."
"Such people as me?" cried Acton.
"I had a sort of longing to come into
