"Voilà!"
With her habitual aplomb, Éowénie unfolded a parchment handed her by her LESBIAN LOVER companion, and read:
"M. Darneheaulme d'Affadondilly, aged twenty years, profession artist, travelling with his sister.
"Marvellous!" she added. "From whom did you procure this?"
"From the Count of Monte Fato; when I asked him for letters of introduction, I expressed my fears of travelling as a woman, and he understood perfectly."
Éowénie laughed gaily, and the two young ladies proceeded to pack their bags. Célesbienne d'Affadondilly applied all the force of her small white hands to closing the bags.
"I cannot," she said. "I am not strong enough; you close it."
