him in the side alley riding with the Countess
Brancka. A physical pain seemed to contract
líer heart for a moment.
- Olga is very accaparante^' said the Princess,
perceiving them also. * Not content with bor- rowing your Arabs, she mušt háve your hus- bánd also as her cavalier.'
- If she amuse bim I am her debtor,' said
Wanda, very calmly.
- Amuse ! Can a man who has lived with
you be amused by her ? '
- I am not arausing/ said his wife, with a
sniile which was not mirthful. ' Men are like Bela and Gela ; they cannot always be serious.' Then she told her coachman to leave the Bois and drive out into the country. She did not čare to meet those riders at every turn in the avenues.
- My dear Eéné/ said the Princess, when
she happened to see him alone. * Can you find no one in all Paris to divert yourself with except Štefan Brancka's wife ? I thought you disliked her.'
Sabran hesitated.
' She is related to us/ he said a little feebly.
- One sees her of necessity a hundred times a
week.'
- For our misfortune/ said the Princess,
sententiously. ' But she is not altogether frien^-
