MADAME DE TREYMES
"Ah, I am not sure. You will not like what I am going to say."
"Shall I not?" he rejoined, changing colour.
She raised her eyes from the thoughtful contemplation of her painted fan. "You appear to have no idea of the difficulties."
"Should I have asked your help if I had not had an idea of them?"
"But you are still confident that with my help you can surmount them?"
"I can't believe you have come here to take that confidence from me?"
She leaned back, smiling at him through her lashes. "And all this I am to do for your beaux yeux?"
"No—for your own: that you may see with them what happiness you are conferring."
"You are extremely clever, and I like
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