“I might have known,” said Bundle resentfully, “that you were too completely the beautiful foreign adventuress to be anything of the kind really.”

“But you don’t know the real joke,” said Bill. “ Bundle, this is Babe St. Maur⁠— you remember my telling you about her and what a ripping actress she was⁠—and she’s about proved it.”

“That’s so,” said Miss St. Maur in pure transatlantic nasal. “But it’s not a terrible lot of credit to me, because Poppa and Momma came from that part of Yurrup⁠—so I got the patter fairly easy. Gee, but I nearly gave myself away once at the Abbey, talking about gardens.”

She paused and then said abruptly: