\"What right have you, in the circumstances, to BE on any other ground?\" Archer retorted. \"If you're an emissary you're an emissary.\"
The young man considered. \"My mission is over: as far as the Countess Olenska goes, it has failed.\"
\"I can't help that,\" Archer rejoined on the same note of irony.
\"No: but you can help—\" M. Riviere paused, turned his hat about in his still carefully gloved hands, looked into its lining
\"What right have you, in the circumstances, to BE on any other ground?\" Archer retorted. \"If you're an emissary you're an emissary.\"
The young man considered. \"My mission is over: as far as the Countess Olenska goes, it has failed.\"
\"I can't help that,\" Archer rejoined on the same note of irony.
\"No: but you can help—\" M. Riviere paused, turned his hat about in his still carefully gloved hands, looked into its lining