You
see, she left enough money to pay for everything, as well as to provide
my servants with handsome gratuities. That is more than the last person
who left the Pension Malfait in a hurry troubled to do!"
"But is it not extraordinary that she left her luggage, and that she did
not even tell you where she was going?" repeated Sylvia in a worried,
dissatisfied tone.
"Pardon me, Madame, that is not strange at all! Madame Wolsky probably
went off to Paris without knowing exactly where she meant to stay, and no
one wants to take luggage with them when they are looking round for an
hotel. I am expecting at any moment to receive a telegram telling me
where to send the luggage. You, Madame, if you permit me to say so, have
not had my experience--my experience, I mean, in the matter of ladies who
play at the Lacville Casino."
There was still a tone of covert insolence in her voice, and she went on,
"True, Madame Wolsky has not behaved as badly as she might have done.
Still, you must admit that it is rather inconsiderate of her, after
engaging the room for the whole of the month of August, to go off like
this!"
Madame Malfait felt thoroughly incensed, and did not trouble to conceal
the fact.
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