“You are turning to psychology,” he replied not without irony. “It is very much out of fashion, I warn you. But don’t let us exchange epigrams,” he went on seriously. “The little one will be here to pose directly, and if I met her we should be lost. I will put you in possession of the facts in five minutes. I must first tell you that she is again on the track of my flirtation with Queen Anne, on whom, in parenthesis, you have not called and left your card. By the way, give me one and I will leave it for you on my next visit. As the flirtation is at the moment very accentuated, Camille is very, very jealous and very distrustful. In short, yesterday there was the inverse of the other comedy. You recall the dinner trick, don’t you? I received about four o’clock two notes, one from Madam de B—— signifying that ... But the contents of this note would make you jump if I told them to you. In reality you are very naïve and still believe in a woman’s modesty. Confine yourself to the knowledge that in her husband’s absence—he has been called into the country to see a sick relative—Queen Anne had arranged to dine and spend the evening with me. The other note was from Camille, to tell me that in the absence of her mother, who was also called into the country by a sick relative, knowing that I was disengaged for the evening, she had arranged for us to dine and return home together after _La Duchesse Curtain_. “So you naturally preferred Madam de B——, and told Camille that you were dining with me?” “I have not told you everything,” he said. “I thought it better to receive the note too late. For I might have gone out at four o’clock and not have returned to dinner? She will be here directly. Be careful not to mention my visit this morning. Say incidentally, without appearing to intend to do so, that you had some friends to dinner yesterday, and that I was among them. She believes you. When she reaches home she will find a wire from 'yours truly’ confirming the story, and the trick is done, unless Senneterre——” “What has Senneterre to do with it?” I asked.