”
“I mean—”
“I behaved like an idiot, that’s all. ”
“And he accepted meekly?”
“Practically. Besides, there are greater rascals than Jack Sheppard at liberty, Sir Rowland. . He would never be
able to figure out that: all these miles from Cuba, and you could get a perfecto
for thirteen cents. “Idiotic, isn’t it?”
“Absolutely,” she agreed coldly. He was all alone, like herself. “Would you mind calling that
hansom for me?”
He looked at it critically and shook his head. Her anger died and she eyed him. ”
He threw open the door of the sitting-room and switched on the electric light. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. He wisely refrained from questioning the manager of the Victoria. Old London Bridge. But, in the midst
of all her affliction, she has found a steady friend in Mr. The idea of anything criminal never entered her thoughts.
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