The things we do!

Madam?"
"As to that, I can not tell. Why should you care? Do not be
concerned over details. You have brought me into this situation.
I must escape from it in my own way."
"You sting me deeply. I've had to do this, just as an executioner
may have to cut off a head; but a thousand times I ask your pardon.
A thousand times you, yourself, have made me ashamed. Come, when
we part, shall it not be as friends? You have won my respect, my
admiration. I wish I were entitled to your own. You've been
perfect. You've been splendid."
"Look," she said, without raising her eyelids.
He turned. Dunwody was making his way toward them among the tables.
"My dear Senator," said Carlisle, choking down his wrath as the
Missourian reached them and bowed his salutations, "I have the
greatest pleasure in the world in keeping my promise to you. I am
delighted to have you join our little party at this time. You
remember the Countess--I would say, Miss Barren?"
"I have not so soon forgotten," answered Dunwody.


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