But the Princess intervened in her most princely manner. “Of course! My name is Betsy, and you were seeking for _me_ at all the dressmakers’!” She turned to the footman with her smile of benediction. “Tell the young lady,” she said, “that Monsieur in his turn is engaged with another client, who begs her to accept this slight compensation for her trouble.” She slipped from her wrist a hoop of jade and brilliants, and the footman withdrew with the token. “And now,” said the Princess, “as it is past three o’clock, we ought really to be thinking of _zakouska_.” THE END ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _By EDITH WHARTON_ HERE AND BEYOND THE MOTHER’S RECOMPENSE OLD NEW YORK FALSE DAWN THE OLD MAID THE SPARK NEW YEAR’S DAY THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON THE AGE OF INNOCENCE SUMMER THE REEF THE MARNE FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES ● Typos fixed; non-standard spelling and dialect retained. ● Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.