But it is only a freak." "I hear she has lost all her winnings to-day.

Are they rich?
Who knows ?" "Ah, who knows?
Who knows that about anybody ?" said Mr.Vandernoodt, moving off to join the Langens.
The remark that Gwendolen wound her neck about more than usual this evening was true.

But it was not that she might carry out the serpent idea more completely: it was that she watched for any chance of seeing Deronda, so that she might inquire about this stranger, under whose measuring gaze she was still wincing.

At last her opportunity came.
"Mr.Vandernoodt, you know everybody," said Gwendolen, not too eagerly, rather with a certain languor of utterance which she sometimes gave to her clear soprano.

"Who is that near the door ?" "There are half a dozen near the door.