Ask a porter to put those trunks in the left-luggage office, and bring me the keys and the receipt." When this was done and money matters had been adjusted between them, Jennie gave the girl five pounds more than was due to her, and saw her into the railway carriage, well pleased with the reward.

A hansom brought Jennie to her flat, and so ended the exhausting episode of the Duchess of Chiselhurst's ball.
Yet an event, like a malady, leaves numerous consequences in its train, extending, who shall say, how far into the future?
The first symptom of these consequences was a correspondence, and, as there is no reading more dreary than a series of letters, merely their substance is given here.

When Jennie was herself again, she wrote a long letter to the Princess von Steinheimer, detailing the particulars of her impersonation, and begging pardon for what she had done, while giving her reasons for doing it; but, perhaps because it did not occur to her, she made not the slightest reference to Lord Donal Stirling.

Two answers came to this--one a registered packet containing the diamonds which the Princess had previously offered to her; the other a letter from the Princess's own hand.

The glitter of the diamonds showed Jennie that she had been speedily forgiven, and the letter corroborated this.