I have had other things
to puzzle out."
And the millionaire straightway proceeded to think, in his usual
clear-cut fashion. "Something with girls in it," he soon concluded,
inwardly. Then aloud:
"I guess my millennium would be rather a contradictory sort of
business. I should require tobacco, to begin with. And the affair would
certainly not be complete, Count, without a great deal of your company.
The millennium of other people may be more simple. That of the Duchess,
for example, is at hand. She is about to join the Roman Catholic
Church."
"That reminds me," said Mr. Heard. "She gave me some remarkable
tea-cakes not long ago. Delicious. She said they were your specialty."
"You have found them out, have you?" laughed the American. "I always
tell her that once a man begins on those tea-cakes there is no reason
on earth, that I can think of, why he should ever stop again. All the
same, I nearly overate myself the other day. That was because we had a
late luncheon on board. It shall never occur again--the late luncheon, I
mean.
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