ABSTRACT
Katherine Massarene noticed that her father paired 481 early in the season and was ordered by his physician to take the waters of Ems. But she made no remark on the fact, and her mother said, quite unsuspiciously, to her husband on his departure, ‘If you see the Duchess there, William, give her my love. She was looking worried and worn when she left.’ She was always fascinated by that lovely apparition which had seemed to her so splendid an incarnation of aristocracy and grace, delicious insolence and incomparable sorcery.
