All the audience looked dreamy. Edith was thinking of
Aylmer Ross. Where was he now? Would she ever see him again? Had she
been wise to throw away her happiness like that? She tried to put the
thought aside, but she observed, with a smile, that Madame Frabelle
looked--and not when he was looking at her--a shade tenderly at Bruce.
Edith remembered what Landi had said: 'Si ca l'amuse?' She found an
opportunity to tell him that Madame Frabelle believed in her own
intuitions, and had got it into her head that she and Mr. Mitchell were
attached to one another.
'Naturellement. Elle veut s'excuser; la pauvre.'
'But she really believes it.'
'Elle voit double, alors!' exclaimed Landi.
CHAPTER VI
Edith and Madame Frabelle had long talks next day over the little
dinner-party, and the people of their intimate circle whom she had met.
She was delighted with Landi, though a little frightened of him, as most
people were when they first knew him, unless he really liked them
immensely.
She impressed on Edith to beware of Mr. Mitchell.
Bruce, for once, had really been satisfied with his own entertainment,
and declared to Edith that Madame Frabelle had made it go off
splendidly.
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