Yet, I was not the only person who sat with her.

Other men paid her attentive court.

The difference was, however, that with me she assumed ever so delicate, yet palpable an air of proprietorship, none the less alluring because there was no heart in it.

So far as the other passengers were concerned, there was nothing jarring to propriety in our companionship.

They did not know of Number 116 Intermediate.