Page:The Private Life, Lord Beaupré, The Visits (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1893).djvu/67

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THE PRIVATE LIFE
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"And she doesn't want him to know it. There won't be any sketch."

"Unless we overtake him," I subjoined. "In that case we shall find him producing one, in the most graceful attitude, and the queer thing is that it will be brilliant."

"Let us leave him alone; he'll have to come home without it."

"He'd rather never come home. Oh, he'll find a public!"

"Perhaps he'll do it for the cows," Blanche Adney suggested; and as I was on the point of rebuking her profanity she went on, "That's simply what I happened to discover."

"What are you speaking of?"

"The incident of day before yesterday."

"Ah, let's have it, at last!"

"That's all it was—that I was like Lady Mellifont; I couldn't find him."

"Did you lose him?"

"He lost me—that appears to be the way of it. He thought I was gone."

"But you did find him, since you came home with him."

"It was he who found me. That again is