” She grinned. Her cheeks were aflame. " "Thank'ee,—thank'ee. But once he had steered the lady down the hall and along a passage to a window seat at the end, he abandoned the subject of society. She went to her own table and sat down. If we were to wait till a prig was rightfully nabbed, we might tarry till doomsday. It surprised her she hadn’t thought of it before! She tried to explain that she was going to pay him forty pounds without fail next week. She tried to compose her thoughts, to think of the last six months, to steep herself in the calm beauty of the surroundings. Nor, he would wager, had the heroic Monsieur Valade, who had rescued her from that life and brought her to England, taught her in that short time all that Gerald was certain she knew of men. “What you have said is a ridiculous falsehood,” she declared scornfully. They turned the last corner, and almost immediately a man who had been standing there turned and struck Ennison a violent blow on the cheek. ” She glanced shyly at the mirror above her dressing-table, and then about her at the furniture, as though it might penetrate to the thoughts that peeped in her mind. Ye gods! what a wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. There was no reason why she shouldn’t be Capes’ friend.
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