Chapter 30

"Nowhere. We missed you at the Cafe Concert," Patrine began. "And then," von Herrnung explained, "we happened to take the wrong turn. But we have not gone far before we are recalled." "--To the path of probity," suggested Lady Beauvayse, adding: "And in this instance the path of probity leads to the _Pavilion de Chahut_." She explained to Patrine: "_Chahut_ is the modern version of the _can-can_--famous in the days of the Second Empire; when the great cocodettes of the Court of the Tuileries--rivals of Cora Pearl …