Chapter 1
MATRIMONY AND AN AWKWARD MEETING "How delightfully Continental!" Blanche exclaimed, as the head-waiter showed them to their table. "Hester, did you ever see anything more quaint?" "It is perfect," the girl answered, leaning back in her chair, and looking around with quiet content. Mannering took up the menu and ordered dinner. Then he lit a cigarette and looked around. "It certainly is quaint," he said. "One dines out of doors often enough, especially over here, but I have never seen a courtyard made such excellent use of before. The place is really old, too." They had found their way to a small seaside resort, in the north of France, which Mannering had heard highly praised by some casual acquaintance. The courtyard of the small hotel was set out with round dining tables, and the ill
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