I wish to express my
gratitude to you, and, therefore, I ask you to accept my most cordial
thanks."
"It has always been a pleasure to me," said I very frigidly, "to place
my services at the disposal of Madame Brandt."
"Vauvenarde, Monsieur," he corrected with a smile.
"And is Madame Vauvenarde equally satisfied with the--reconciliation?" I
asked.
"I think Monsieur Vauvenarde is somewhat premature," said Lola, with a
trembling lip. "There were conditions--"
"A mere question of protocol." He waved an airy hand.
"I don't know what that is," said Lola. "There are conditions I must
fix, and I thought the advice of my friend, Monsieur de Gex--"
"Precisely, my dear Lola," he interrupted. "The principle is affirmed.
We are reconciled. I proceed logically. The first thing I do is to thank
Monsieur de Gex--you have a French name, Monsieur, and you pronounce it
English fashion, which is somewhat embarrassing--But no matter. The
next thing is the protocol. We have no possibility of calling a family
council, and therefore, I acceded with pleasure to the intervention
of Monsieur.
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