Melusine sighed with relief at being alone at last and free to resume her search among the portraits. It was locked. “You’re splendid!” said Teddy, with his hair wild in the wind. She wanted to think of him as her beloved person, to be near him and watch him, to have him going about, doing this and that, saying this and that, unconscious of her, while she too remained unconscious of herself. ’ He moved to his friend and grasped his hand in a gesture as deliberately dramatic as the storytelling of mademoiselle. En tout cas, no one has asked you to puzzle out anything at all. A faint anticipation of triumph showed in his manner and a subdued excitement. ” “I wonder,” he said, a trifle irrelevantly, “what the future has in store for you. ” He played it cool, but he had seen it in her face.