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Anna Prestnoff, from her comfortable chair at the well-chosen but remote corner table in the fashionable restaurant of the moment watched the rapidly filling room with interest. She watched, too, Alexander as he wrote out his order and handed it to the _maitre d'hôtel_ who had taken charge of them upon their entrance.
"I am feeling rather guilty," she confessed. "To tell you the truth, this is not at all the sort of thing I had in my mind. I imagined that you might have stayed on for a time at the studio, that I should have mixed you one of my not very good and never quite cold enough _apéritifs_ and that we should have gone out together to one of those little restaurants close at hand."