"I wonder if you will understand what this kindness means
to me? I am so terribly wise—and so wofully ignorant!"
CHAPTER XII
The doctor shifted his books and magazines to the crook of his elbow. She was
marvellously pretty, but he was not quite sure—yet—that it was advisable for
him to sit with her in so public a place. "There were some marks near the window; but whether recently made or not
could not be ascertained," replied Winifred. Finally, at the exit into Regent’s Park, they ran against Miss Klegg. Annabel ignored both the chair and the invitation. He brought home her first “meal”, a man who he
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claimed was a highwayman who had raped several women
and was destined for the hangman’s noose. “I feel shabby and
disgraced. The Lord have mercy upon
you!"
This ceremony concluded, the calvacade was again put in motion. ’
‘You ain’t never,’ gasped Pottiswick. And there was no intimation whatever that the blinds would
ever go up or the windows or doors be opened, or the chandeliers, that seemed to
promise such a blaze of fire, unveiled and furnished and lit.
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