Square, and you'll have to be careful about taking the children on
your lap and in your arms, if they're babies. You love children, and
you just naturally hold out your hands to them, but if you don't know
them very well, you'd better not. All of them ain't healthy, and
hardly any--"

Bettina stopped and, standing still, looked straight ahead of her at
a man and a young woman crossing the street some little distance from
us. Then she looked up at me. The man was Selwyn. The girl with
him was the odd and elfish little creature who had been hurt in
Scarborough Square and whom he had helped bring in to Mrs. Mundy.




CHAPTER IX

Bettina, who had opened the door for Selwyn on his last visit, and
who had informed me the next day that she had "shivered with
trembles" because of his great difference to the men in Scarborough
Square, for the second time looked up at me.

"What is he doing down here?" Her finger pointed in the direction of
the man and woman just ahead of us. "What's he talking to that girl
for?"

I did not answer her at once. Amazement and unbelief were making my
heart hot, and a flood of color burned my face. Of all men on earth,
Selwyn was the last to find in this part of the town at this time of
the evening, and as he bent his head to speak to the girl I noticed