That's how I began--with that and the excitement.

And now this is the end." She had risen and was pacing the floor wildly.
"Mrs.Dunlap," she cried, pausing before Constance, "to-day I am nothing more nor less than a 'capper,' as they call it, for a gambling resort." She was almost hysterical.

The contrast with the gay, respectable, prosperous-looking woman at Bella's was appalling.

Constance realized to the full what were the tragedies that were enacted elsewhere.
As she looked at the despairing woman, she could reconstruct the terrible situation.

Cultivated, well-bred, fashionably gowned, a woman like Mrs.Noble served admirably the purpose of luring men on.