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t me are foul libels set about by Montelupo and yourself for political purposes."
"Enough!" he cried, incensed at her words. "We need not discuss that now. I demand to know why I find you prying here, in my room?"
She smiled. "I came to see Carmenilla," she answered.
"And she invited you to lunch?--you whom I have forbidden her to know!" he exclaimed, exasperated. "A woman of your stamp is no companion for my daughter."
"Yet you once told me that you loved me, and I might, if I had felt so inclined, have now been the Countess Castellani, and done the honours of this Embassy. Ah, my dear Conte," she went on, "you are a noted diplomatist, and no doubt as wary and cunning as most of your confreres. But you forget that every woman is by birth a diplomatist, and that in politics I have had a wide and, perhaps, unique experience."
"You possess the ingenuity and daring of the very devil himself," he blurted forth. "Show me that paper."
"No," she answered firmly. "It is in my possession--and I keep it."
"You've stolen it!" he cried, advancing towards her determinedly. "Give it to me this instant."
"I shall not."
From where he stood his eyes wandered to the table, and he noticed that one of the drawers stood open. Within her hand, he saw the envelope was a blue one, secured by seals. In an instant he dashed towards the drawer, rummaged its contents, and finding the document missing, cried--
"Your infernal impertinence is really astounding. You enter my house, commit a theft, and when charged with it refuse to give up the stolen property. If you don't return it to me at once, I'll call in the police, and have you arrested."
"Really?" she exclaimed with a sarcastic laugh which caused his cheeks to become flushed by anger. "I think after so many years of diplomacy, you ought to be aware that such a course is impossible. If you were a young attache just fresh from Rome, my dear Count, you might be pardoned for not knowing that here, in this Embassy, I am on Italian soil, and, being an Italian subject, the London police are unable to arrest me."
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