Ever since the young police
officer had arrived on her doorstep the clock had started
ticking faster. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. But, I'll expose him. He read the Times with an
unusually passionate intentness, and then declared suddenly for the earlier of the
two trains he used. “Well,” he said slowly, “I had met you three times—before Drummond’s
dinner. “No, I’d like to. He was wrapped in a laced roquelaure, which he threw off on
his entrance into the room. In Singapore that had been her only dissipation: a dozen pairs of silk
stockings. Aren't we
funny? And just as I was beginning to lose faith in human beings, to have
someone like this come along! It is almost as if she were acting a rôle, and she
isn't. What the devil is
the matter, Dunster?”
“I beg your pardon, sir,” the man answered, “there is a lady here to see you. “Your arrival is really most opportune.
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