CHAPTER V

AN HIGH LOOK AND A PROUD HEART Here is a note, gentlemen, on its way to a lady, I have set it out now, that you may be wiser than she—by some twenty-four hours. Such as it is, I like my lookers-on to see the best of the game. _Rome,_ _14th November._ _MY DEAR VALERIE,_ _I observe from your letter that you have lost faith in the man you love. Now, although I know him not, I trust him implicitly. …