Part 11 (1/2)

”And you yourself?”

Brendon laughed

”Oh, we are also under the spell,” he declared, ”but I think that we are here mainly because it is cheap It is really cheap, you know To appreciate it you should try rooms”

”Is this a fair sample of the dinner?” Anna asked, who had the healthy appetite of a strong young woe,” Brendon adhis ears to listen to their conversation Mrs White caught her eye, and snly down the table

”I hope that Mr Courtlaw is looking after you, Miss Pellissier,” she said

”Ad lady with frizzled hair, whom Brendon had pointed out to her as Miss Ellicot, leaned forward from her hostess's side She had very frizzy hair indeed, very black eyebrows, a profusion ofsmile

”We are so interested to hear, Miss Pellissier,” she said, ”that you have been living in Paris We shall expect you to tell us all what to wear”

Anna smiled very faintly, and shook her head

”I have come from a very unfashi+onable quarter,” she said, ”and I do not think that I have been inside a milliner's shop for a year

Besides, it is all reversed now, you know Paris copies London”

Brendon leaned over confidentially

”You are in luck, Miss Pellissier,” he declared ”Your success here is absolutely reat Mr

Bullding is going to For fiveto say I aht of so”

”May I be prepared?” Anna asked ”Which is Mr Bullding?”

”Stout old gentle”

Anna raised her eyes, and caught the earnest gaze of an elderly gentleman with a double chin, a protuberant under lip, and a snuff-stained coat

”I was in Paris four years ago,” Mr Building announced solehts, and the place never seereat deal of bad weather to depress the true Parisian,”

Anna admitted

”A volatile te repeated, rather struck with the phrase ”It is a pity that as nations we are not ain to Courtlaw

”I will not be drawn into a conversation with Mr Bullding,” she declared ”I believe that he would bore me Tell me, what are these bananas and nuts for?”