The young lady with frizzled hair, whom Brendon had pointed out to her as Miss
Ellicot, leaned forward from her hostess’s side. Montague Hill, and I do not
think that under those circumstances I should be long about it. ”
She had not, she reflected, remembered how prominent his eyes were. “He is one of
our guests—perhaps I should say boarders here, but he seldom returns before
dinner-time. ”
And then he flashed his whole conception of the relations of men and women
upon her in one astonishing question. “Ferringhall, were you or
were you not dining last night at a certain restaurant in the Boulevard des
Italiennes with—la petite Pellissier?”
Now indeed Sir John was moved. “You call yourself an artist—
but you have no temperament. We can’t afford to
turn our women, our Madonnas, our Saint Catherines, our Mona Lisas, our
goddesses and angels and fairy princesses, into a sort of man. It’s
180
endearing.
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