"That 's just the beauty of it. You were not afraid of being 'drawn in,'
as little Miss Evers says?"
"I am never drawn in, whatever the thing may be. I go in, or I stay out;
but I am not drawn," said Gordon Wright.
"You were not drawn into coming with Mrs. Vivian and her daughter from
Dresden to this place?"
"I did n't come with them; I came a week later."
"My dear fellow," said Bernard, "that distinction is unworthy of your
habitual candor."
"Well, I was not fascinated; I was not overmastered. I wanted to come to
Baden."
"I have no doubt you did. Had you become very intimate with your friends
in Dresden?"
"I had only seen them three times."
"After which you followed them to this place? Ah, don't say you were not
fascinated!" cried Bernard, laughing and springing to his feet.
CHAPTER VI
That evening, in the gardens of the Kursaal, he renewed acquaintance
with Angela Vivian. Her mother came, as usual, to sit and listen to the
music, accompanied by Blanche Evers, who was in turn attended by Captain
Lovelock. This little party found privacy in the crowd; they seated
themselves in a quiet corner in an angle of one of the barriers of the
terrace, while the movement of the brilliant Baden world went on around
them.
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