"He was down at the Kursaal the other night--the night Tony and I had such
good luck. I dropped my bag and he picked it up for me. That's all."
Ann spoke rather shortly, and for some time afterwards appeared to be
completely absorbed in manoeuvring the two-seater through the streets. They
did not encounter the Englishman's car again, and eventually, after making
a final circuit of the town, they returned to Mon Reve.
In the evening Lady Susan complained of fatigue.
"I've not quite got over that fall of mine yet," she acknowledged ruefully,
when Ann suggested that perhaps she had been out driving too long in the
hot sun. "Elderly ladies should refrain from tumbling about; it shakes them
up too much. I should immensely like to go to bed, if you don't mind
watching the Venetian fete in solitary splendour. Do you?"
She emitted a sigh of satisfaction when Ann assured her that she did not.
"Then I shall just disappear to bed with a novel. It will entertain me far
more than gazing at a lot of illuminated boats paddling about the lake."
"I think I shall take our boat out, then," said Ann. "I'd rather like to
see it all at close quarters. It's all new to me, you know.
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