Chapter 42

Guggle and Winkle immediately rushed at him and bore him in triumph to be introduced to Mademoiselle. For the first time, Anthony felt a qualm. Mademoiselle Brun was a small, middle-aged woman with a sallow face, pepper and salt hair, and a budding moustache! As the notorious foreign adventuress she did not fit into the picture at all. “I believe,” said Anthony to himself, “I’m making the most utter fool of myself. Never mind, I must go through with it now.” He was extremely pleasant to Mademoiselle, and she, on he…