suffice.

I had fully decided on this when the automobile stopped in
front of a large house in Fifth Avenue, and I had time to tell
the driver that I had thought of the proper thing to say, but
that was all, for the waiting lady came down the steps in great
anger, and was about to begin a good scolding, when she noticed
me sitting in her automobile.

If she had been angry before she was now furious, and she was
the kind of young woman who can be extremely furious when she
tries. I think nothing in the world could have calmed her had she
not caught sight of my face by the light of two strong lamps on a
passing automobile. She saw in my face what you see there now, my
dear--the benevolent, fatherly face of a settled-down,
trustworthy, married man of past middle age--and as if by magic
her anger fled and she burst into tears.

"Oh, sir!" she cried, "I do not know who you are, nor how you
happen to be in my car, but at this moment I am homeless and
friendless. I am alone in the world, and I need advice. Let me
get into the car beside you--"

"Miss," I said, "I do not like to disoblige you, but I can
never allow myself to be in an automobile at this time of night
with a strange woman, unchaperoned."

These words seemed almost more than she could bear, and my
heart was full of pity, but, just as I was about to spring from
the automobile and rush away, I saw on the walk the poor woman to