"A Matson 32, automatic."
I shivered inwardly. Did the man buy them wholesale?
"Do you carry it about with you?" asked Mme. Storey, laughing.
"Oh, no," said Fay simply. "I keep it in my bottom drawer."
"Ah, well, I'll have to think of something else then," said Mme. Storey.
They embraced, and Fay went.
The instant the door closed after her, Mme. Storey said to me: "Quick, Bella! Your hat!" She went to the window to wave her hand to Fay when she issued below. While standing there,
said Mme. Storey. "When your mistress sent for you to dress her, you said you found her excited. Do you mean pleasurably so?"
"Yes...no...I can hardly say, Madame. When I thought over it afterwards, I supposed she had made up her mind then to end it all, and was just sort of wrought up."
"That