All this I get from the man who handed her on to me.

As I said to him, it depends on what 'London' you mean." "Married ?" "Oh dear no, though of course she calls herself 'Madame' like the rest of them--Madame Vavasour.

I have reason, however, to believe that her real name is Flink--Elena Flink.

And I should say--very much on the look-out for a husband; and meanwhile very much courted by boys--who go to what she calls her 'evenings.' It is odd, the taste that some youths have for these elderly Circes." "Elderly ?" said Doris, busy the while with her own preparations.

"I was hoping for something young and beautiful!" "Young ?--no!--an unmistakable thirty-five.