For this purpose he arrayed himself in accurate evening dress.

Senora Gredos thought he was a mere idler, a man-about-town.
Had she known of his real profession she might not have welcomed him so freely to her house.

Maraquito, for obvious reasons, had no desire to come into touch with the authorities.
But it must not be thought that she violated the law in any very flagrant way.

She was too clever for that.

Her house was conducted in a most respectable manner.