The Cab of the Sleeping Horse

Something of which the lady may have suspected and was prepared to humour. A man must be humoured at times--particularly when the woman is trying for something that can only be...

"It's their profession that's bothering me!" Harleston laughed. "Why are three Americans engaged in what bears every appearance of being a diplomatic matter, and of which our St...

"We understand each other now, Marston," she said simply; which tied Marston only the tighter to her--as she well knew. And Marston knew it, too. Also he knew that he had not th...

"Proceed!" Harleston whispered. "I haven't the letter with me, as you should know. Do I look so much like a novice? Furthermore, if I am not mistaken, I told you that I was goin...

"It may have been a mistake, my friend," she observed; "one never can tell until he's tried it--and failed. I mightn't have missed had I gone on another schedule. However, the p...

"Hello, Mrs. Spencer! I'm glad to see you," he returned. "If you're bound for the Chateau or downtown, won't you let me take you in my car? It's at the door."

"Delightful!" Harleston exclaimed. "You're a bully diplomat. However, I'm not so sure that Spencer ever imagined her letter would reach the Marquis. She's playing for something...

"Then I'm inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. I'll trust her, until I've seen something to warrant distrust--bearing in mind, however, what you have just told me, and...

"I am profoundly interested, mademoiselle, in any matter that concerns you--as well as in yourself. Who would not be interested in one so impulsive--and anything so important--a...

What her purpose, in all this talk, he failed to see--unless she were seeking to establish an _entente cordiale_, or to gain time. The latter was the likelier--yet time for what...

"The difference is that the Spencer crowd are trying to obtain something to which they haven't the least right--and I'm playing the game against them. You see my peculiar positi...

"For treating me as a human being. Most persons treat me like an automaton or a bit of dirt. You're different; most of the men are not so bad; it's the women, Mr. Harleston, the...

It took more than an hour; at the end, as a full measure of good faith and because it was of no further use to him--he having preserved a copy--Marston insisted that Carpenter r...

"The cleverest woman I know is also the most beautiful," he replied. "Yes, I can name her offhand. She has all the finesse of her sex, together with the reasoning mind; she is s...

"We are fellow diplomats," he countered. "You did me a good turn in the Du Plesis affair; I'm trying now to show my appreciation. Moreover, it will give Snodgrass an opportunity...