er was in a place like this before."

"You may very likely never be in such a one again," he told her
seriously; "so you must be as happy as you can while you're here."

"That reason for having a good time hadn't occurred to me," she
answered, giving him back his smile.

"Then think to occur it now," he rejoined.

The waitress had by this time gotten rid of her ten mugs and came to
them, beginning proceedings by spreading the menu down on the table and
running her pencil through item after item.

"You had better order before everything is gone," Rosina suggested.

"I must think the same," he replied, and took up the menu.

"_Haben Sie bouillon?_" he demanded immediately.

The waitress signified that bouillon was not to be.

"How shall I do?" he asked, looking blank. "In all my life I have never
eat without a bouillon before?"

Rosina and the waitress felt their mutual helplessness in this
difficulty, and the proceedings in hand came to a standstill natural
under the circumstances.

"Can't they make you some?" the American brain suggested.

He turned the idea over in his mind once or twice and then:

"No," he said; "it is not worth. It will be better that we eat now, and
later, when I am in town, I will get a bouillon."

So, that difficulty being disposed of, he ordered a species of repast
with an infinite sense of amusement over the bill of fare. The waitress
then retired and they were left alone in their corner.

"The other lady is getting kissed," Rosina said. The publicity of a
certain grade of continental love-making is always both interesting and
amazing to the Anglo-Saxon temperament.

He looked behind him without at all disturbing what was in progress
there. After a minute's quiet stare he turned back in his seat and
shrugged his shoulders.

"You see how simple it is when the woman is still," he said pointedly.
"There is no fainting there; he loses no seventeen-mark umbrella from
Baden-Baden."

She ignored the gist of this remark, and began to unhook the collar of
her jacket. Then she decided to take it off altogether.

"You find it too warm?" he said, rising to assist her.

"I certainly do."

"It is curious for you and I to be in such a place, _n'est-ce pas_?"

"Very curious."

"But it is an experience, like eating in the woods."

"I don't think that it is at all like eating in the woods; I think that
nothing could be more different."

"We are so alone."

"Oh!"

"Now you unders