Chapter 29

But von Herrnung was saying, as they moved with a straggling procession of similar pleasure-seekers, over smooth sanded pathways between beds of geranium and verbena and lobelia, ivy-leaved geranium and gaily coloured foliage-plants, bordered with little twinkling lamps: "Shall I tell you what I have just heard as those people passed us? The tall man with the white moustache, and the chic little woman in the Spanish _mantilla_. She told her friend that we make a handsome couple. Perhaps that makes you a little an…