yellow carriage stopped beside the pavement and caught my attention without my knowing why. And as I was passing it I glimpsed the face whose picture I showed you this evening, and its beauty bewitched me. I spent that night and the following day thinking of it. How many times I went up and down that street searching for that carriage—to no avail. I said to myself: it can have been nothing but a dream. A week later I was dining at Madame de Rastail's. Dinner was at eight, but we remained until half past eight waiting in the drawing room. At last the maid opened the door and announced the arrival of Lady Alroy. I looked, and there I was, face to face with my lady of the yellow carriage. She came forward slowly, like moonbeams when the moon sends out its long, quiet threads. And how great was my joy when I was asked to take her in to dinner. After we had sat down together I said with evident artlessness:
"'I think I have seen you before, in Bond Street, Lady Alroy.'
"At that a pallor spread over her face, and she said in a quiet voice: 'Please do not raise your voice, lest someone hear you.' I felt remorse at having made so bad a beginning, and, retrieving the situation, I passed on to the subject of French plays. She spoke a little, in that same mysterious tone and calm, musical voice. She seemed as though she feared someone might hear her. I had fallen in love with her in a rush of impetuosity, bewilderment, and pain. Yet the mystery and secrecy that surrounded her stirred my curiosity and my perplexity. She did not stay long after dinner, but rose to leave, and I asked her to permit me to call on her. She hesitated a little, then glanced about her and answered me in a low voice: 'Yes, tomorrow at a quarter to five.'
"I begged Madame de Rastail to tell me about her, but all I learned from her was that she was a
widow who owned a beautiful house in Park Lane. Some of the tiresome guests sitting with us broke in with explanations of the causes of her widowhood, saying it was the result of the woman's unfitness for marriage and motherhood,
so I rose and left them and went away.
"The next day I arrived at Park Lane at the appointed hour, but the doorman informed me that Lady Alroy had gone out only a very short while before.
"I returned to the club that
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