MADAME DE TREYMES
He stood up in silence, and the abruptness of his movement caused Madame de Treymes' hand to slip from his arm.
"You refuse?" she exclaimed; and he answered with a bow: "Only because of the return you propose to make me."
She stood staring at him, in a perplexity so genuine and profound that he could almost have smiled at it through his disgust.
"Ah, you are all incredible," she murmured at last, stooping to repossess herself of her fan; and as she moved past him to rejoin the group in the farther room, she added in an incisive undertone: "You are quite at liberty to repeat our conversation to your friend!"
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