As the door closed and the Marquis sat down again he said,
“I congratulate you, Rupert! You have certainly produced a unique collection of Beauties!”
“I am glad you are not disappointed,” Rupert replied.
The Gentlemen moved up the table to be nearer the Marquis.
“I find them astonishing!” a man said who had sat next to Katherine. “I had one of the most interesting conversations I have enjoyed for a long time, and it is something I never expected to happen with any Gaiety Girl!”
One or two of the other men said the same thing.
Although the Marquis did not comment he was thinking that Vina was certainly unusual.
He could hardly believe her preoccupation with Tibet.
“It must be an act!” he told himself. “No Gaiety Girl of that age could be interested in an obscure country which has cl
