"I know this," said she, with heightened cheek, and flashing eyes and a
voice of steel, "you will never get Mr. Edward Severne into one room with
Zoe Vizard and Ina Klosking."
Zoe Vizard turned very pale, but her eyes flashed defiance on her friend.
"That I'll know!" said she, in a deep voice, with a little gasp, but a
world of pride and resolution.
CHAPTER VII.
THE ladies went down together, and found Vizard ready. Mr. Severne was
not in the room. Zoe inquired after him.
"Gone to get a sun-shade," said Vizard.
"There!" said Zoe to Fanny, in a triumphant whisper. "What is that for
but to go with us?"
Fanny made no reply.
They waited some time for Severne and his sun-shade.
At last Vizard looked at his watch, and said they had only five minutes
to spare. "Come down, and look after him. He _must_ be somewhere about."
They went down and looked for him all over the Platz. He was not to be
seen. At last Vizard took out his watch, and said, "It is some
misunderstanding: we can't wait any longer."
So he and Zoe went to the train. Neither said much on the way to Homburg;
for they were both brooding. Vizard's good sense and right feeling were
beginning to sting him a little for calling on the Klosking at all, and a
great deal for using the enthusiasm of an inexperienced girl to obtain an
introduction to a public singer.
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