CHAPTER SIXComte Raoul led Larisa back from the theatre into the promenade.
He walked her quickly past the women with their fantastic hats and the men standing against the bar with drinks in their hands who were flirting with the attractive, fair-haired bar maid who had been immortalised some years earlier in a picture by Manet. In the doorway he gave an order to one of the porters who hurried out into the street and in a few minutes reappeared to say,
“The carriage is waiting, Monsieur.”
Monsieur.”Comte Raoul tipped him and led Larisa onto the pavement as a very smart closed carriage drew up with the coachman and footman wearing the Valmont livery.
The door was opened and Comte Raoul helped her in.
He then gave some long instructions to the footman, which she could not overhear, afte
