Also she had an instinct, operating unconsciously long before she had any thought of what she was eventually to do, not to let Barney or Old Jimmie find out, or even guess, that she had warned Larry--not yet.
There seemed nothing that she herself could do.

Then she thought of the Duchess.

That was the way out! The Duchess would know some way in which to get Larry word.
Five minutes later, in her plainest suit and hat, Maggie in a taxicab was rolling down toward the Duchess's--from where, only a few months back, she had started forth upon her great career..