Quite suddenly the true light flashed upon me. I had been slow-sighted indeed! So that was what she had come here for to-day! Miss Hortense was going to pay her compliments to Miss La Heu. I believe that my sight might still have been slow but for that miraculous sweetness upon the face of Eliza. She was ready for the compliments! Well, I sat expectant-- and disappointment was by no means my lot.
Hortense finished her lunch. "And so this interesting place is where you work?"
Eliza, thus addressed, assented.
"And you furnish wedding cakes also?"
Eliza was continuously and miraculously sweet. "The Exchange includes that."
"I shall hope you will be present to taste some of yours on the day it is mine."
"I shall accept the invitation if my friends send me one."
No blood flowed from Hort
