title: After the Affair: A Novella
author: Anne Marie Wylder
description: Anne Marie Wylder believes travel is chicken soup for the soul. She was born in 1974 in Switzerland and grew up in Pennsylvania. Anne Marie currently resides in Orange County, California with her husband, four-year-old son, and an aging pit bull mix. You can always find her on Twitter @annemariewylder.
zlib_text: CHAPTER VI
  
  Dale's occupation, like Othello's, being gone, as far as I am concerned, Lady
  Kynnersley has despatched him to Berlin, on her own business, connected, I
  think, with the International Aid Society. He is to stay there for a
  fortnight.
  
  How he proposes to bear the separation from the object of his flame I have not
  inquired; but if forcible objurgations in the vulgar tongue have any inner
  significance, I gather that Lady Kynnersley has not employed an enthusiastic
  agent.
  
  Being thus free to pursue my eumoirous schemes without his intervention, for
  you cannot talk to a lady for her soul's good when her adorer is gaping at
  you, I have taken the opportunity to see something of Lola Brandt.
  
  I find I have seen a good deal of her; and it seems not improbable that I
  shall see considerably more. Deuce take the woman!
  
  On the first afternoon of Dale's absence I paid her my promised visit. It was
  a dull day, and the room, lit chiefly by the firelight, happily did not reveal
  its nerve-ra