19/21 After a moment she continued: "I can tell you this," she said, with a catch in her voice that was almost a sob, "that I am practically friendless. When you call a taxicab for me in a few moments, and I leave you, with Elmer and my boxes, I shall have no place to go." "But, surely, madam----" "Do not call me madam. What is your name ?" Cleggett told her. |