"No; it was the old address she gave me. I ought to have mentioned
that: it escaped my mind. First of all I went to Belmont Street."

"Mysteries still!" exclaimed Eve. "The people _there_ couldn't know
where I had gone to."

"A child who had carried some parcel for you to Gower Place
volunteered information."

Outwardly amused, and bearing herself as though no incident could
easily disconcert her, Eve did not succeed in suppressing every sign
of nervousness. Constrained by his wonder to study her with critical
attention, the young man began to feel assured that she was
consciously acting a part. That she should be able to carry it off
so well, therein lay the marvel. Of course, London had done much for
her. Possessing no common gifts, she must have developed remarkably
under changed conditions, and must, indeed, have become a very
different person from the country girl who toiled to support her
drunken father's family. Hilliard remembered the mention of her
sister who had gone to Birmingham disappeared; it suggested a
characteristic of the Madeley blood, which possibly must be borne in
mind if he would interpret Eve.

She rested her arms on the little round table.

"So Mrs. Brewer asked you to come and find me?"

"It was only a suggestion, and I may as well tell you how it came
about. I used to have my meals in Mrs. Brewer's parlour, and to