Chapter 49

ARISTOCRATIC VISITORS

I hear disquieting news about my lover's character--The aristocracy a dirty lot--Love-making made easy by titled friends--Anecdotes of Richelieu and the Duke of Orleans--The German nobleman who married Miss Wheeler and had to resign his birthright--The disreputable business the Pappenheims and other nobles used to be in--I am afraid to question my lover as to charges 255