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THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN.
Josephine had invited Aaron Sisson to dinner at a restaurant in Soho, one Sunday evening.

They had a corner to themselves, and with a bottle of Burgundy she was getting his history from him.
His father had been a shaft-sinker, earning good money, but had been killed by a fall down the shaft when Aaron was only four years old.

The widow had opened a shop: Aaron was her only child.

She had done well in her shop.