MADAME DE TREYMES
band's unruly wonder. "I wonder you are, Elmer. Did n't you tell me that Armillac went out of his way to speak to you the other day at the races? And at Madame d'Alglade's sale—yes, I went there after all, just for a minute, because I found Katy and Nannie were so anxious to be taken—well, that day I noticed that Madame de Treymes was quite empressée when we went up to her stall. Oh, I did n't buy anything: I merely waited while the girls chose some lampshades. They thought it would be interesting to take home some thing painted by a real Marquise, and of course I did n't tell them that those women never make the things they sell at their stalls. But I repeat I'm not surprised: I suspected that Madame de Treymes had heard of our little dinners. You know they're really horribly bored in that poky old Fau-
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