CHAPTER 21
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CHARLOTTE:
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“D’ERLANGER SAYS YOU danced with him on Señora Donna Torena de Aranjuez’s yacht last night.”
“Yes, he got a little tipsy on deck. It was quite amusing. Qu’est-ce qui est particulièrement bien en ce moment?”
“You had led me to believe that you were not free.”
“C’est possible de goûter le Banon? Because Lucia and I had already accepted Señora Donna’s invitation.”
“Vandermeer was there.”
“Well, Matthias was invited too. I’m sorry you were not—”
“You’ve rebuffed every outing with me, from the dinner party in Menton where the Rothschilds would have been in attendance to the ball in Villefranche-sur-Mer at the palace of Principessa Jasmin—”
“I’m here now, am I not?”
“I’m referring to formal invitations where one goes to the trouble of dressing
