The navy-blue silk was
quickly made in the privacy of Daisy's apartment, and she was very
charming in it, and attracted a great deal of attention, and drove the
young Irishman nearly crazy with her smiles and coquetries. Lord Hardy
took her and her husband to drive, every day, in the most stylish
turn-out the place afforded, and took them to Nice and Mentone, and
introduced them to some friends of his who were staying at the latter
place, and of whose acquaintance, slight as it was, Daisy made capital
ever after. The adventuress was developing fast in her, and Lord Hardy
was her willing tool, always at her beck and nod, and going everywhere
with her except into the play-room itself. From that place he was
debarred, for at Monte Carlo they have decreed that no male under age
shall enter the charmed spot, and Teddy was not twenty-one, and had said
so to the man in the office, and after that neither persuasions nor
bribes were of any avail.
"Better have lied straight out," more than one hard old man said to him,
but Ted Hardy could not lie _straight out_, and so he staid out and
waited around disconsolately for Daisy, whom fortune sometimes favored
and sometimes deserted.
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