"How well you knew when I said it was a friend of yours. Madame
Goesler is here,--not altered in the least."
"Madame Goesler!"
"Does it annoy you?"
"Oh, no. Why should it annoy me?"
"You never quarrelled with her?"
"Never!"
"There is no reason why you should not meet her?"
"None at all;--only I was surprised. Did she know that I was coming?"
"I told her yesterday. I hope that I have not done wrong or made
things unpleasant. I knew that you used to be friends."
"And as friends we parted, Lady Chiltern." He had nothing more to
say in the matter; nor had she. He could not tell the story of what
had taken place between himself and the lady, and she could not keep
herself from surmising that something had taken place, which, had she
known it, would have prevented her from bringing the two together at
Harrington.
Madame Goesler, when she was dressing, acknowledged to herself that
she had a task before her which would require all her tact and all
her courage. She certainly would not have accepted Lady Chiltern's
invitation had she known that she would encounter Phineas Finn at the
house.
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