saying: “You are quite right. If I lose you, we will meet here in an hour.”
“Exactly.”
The pair plunged into the crowd, followed by the husband. Clotilde kept saying: “How lucky these Walters are! That is what it is to have business intelligence.”
George replied: “Bah! Clever men always make a position one way or another.”
She said: “Here are two girls who will have from twenty to thirty millions apiece. Without reckoning that Susan is pretty.”
He said nothing. His own idea, coming from another’s mouth, irritated him. She had not yet seen the picture of Jesus Walking on the Water , and he proposed to take her to it. They amused themselves by talking scandal of the people they recognized, and making fun of those they did not. Saint-Potin passed by, bearing on the lapel of his coat a number of decorations, which greatly amused them. An ex-ambassador following him showed far fewer.