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.