4‘I think everyone in Monte Carlo is here tonight,’ Lady Violet Featherstone remarked, looking round the big dining room of the Hôtel de Paris where the tables were filling up so quickly that the appearance of each newcomer in the doorway seemed to provide another dilemma for the Maitre d’ Hôtel.
‘Alfonse was telling me that this is the best season they have ever known,’ Lord Drayton remarked from the other side of the table. ‘As the gross profits last year were six million francs that is no façon de parler. We should have bought come shares five or six years ago.’
Sir Robert smiled.
‘It is too late now!’
‘For you, Robert, that is not a tragedy,’ Lord Drayton remarked. ‘What would you do with any more money?’
‘I can answer that question,’ Lady Violet said. ‘He would spend it on me, of
