] Durham's sister."
MARGOT: "I don't know her at all. Is she like me?"
BARON HIRSCH: "Not in the least; but you and she are the only
girls I have met that I could wish my son to marry."
I longed to know what my rival was like, but all he could tell me
was that she was lovely and clever and mignonne, to which I said:
"But she sounds exactly like me!"
This made him laugh:
"I don't believe you know in the least what you are like," he
said.
MARGOT: "You mean I have no idea how plain I am? But what an odd
man you are! If I don't know what I'm like, I am sure you can't!
How do you know that I am not just the sort of adventuress you
dread most? I might marry your son and, so far from widening his
interests, as you suggest, keep him busy with his coins while I
went about everywhere, enjoying myself and spending all your
money. In spite of what you say, some man might fall in love with
me, you know! Some delightful, clever man. And then Lucien's
happiness would be over."
BARON HIRSCH: "I do not believe you would ever cheat your
husband."
MARGOT: "You never can tell! Would Lady Katie Lambton many for
money?"
BARON HIRSCH: "To be perfectly honest with you, I don't think she
would."
MARGOT: "There you are! I know heaps of girls who wouldn't;
anyhow, _I_ never would!"
BARON HIRSCH: "You are in love with some one else, perhaps, are
you?"
It so happened that in the winter I had fallen in love with a man
out hunting and was counting the hours till I could meet him
again, so the question annoyed me; I thought it vulgar and said,
with some dignity:
"If I am, I have never told him so.
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