"Thanks, no. I shall go straight to my rooms. I have not had my
clothes off for three nights."

"Ah, you sailors! I am going down to have my half-hour over a book
to compose my mind."

"Do you read much?"

De Lloseta called the cab with a jerk of his head. Before stepping
into it he looked keenly into his companion's face.

"Yes, a good deal. I read somewhere, lately, that it is never wise
to accept favours from a woman; she will always have more than her
money's worth. Good-night."

And he drove away.



CHAPTER X. THE GAME OPENS.

Ce qu'on dit a l'etre a qui on dit tout n'est pas la moitie de
ce qu'on lui cache.

Agatha sent her maid to bed and sat down before her bedroom fire to
brush her hair.

Miss Ingham-Baker had, only four years earlier, left a fashionable
South Coast boarding-school fully educated for the battle of life.
There seem to be two classes of young ladies' boarding-schools. In