It is the most comfortless pleasure-house in Europe.

You are driven, deliberately, in desperation into the rooms.
Zora and Septimus were standing by the decorous hush of a _trente et quarante_ table, when they were joined by Mr.Clem Sypher.

He greeted them like old acquaintances.
"I reckoned I should meet you sometime to-night.

Winning ?" "We never play," said Zora.
Which was true.

A woman either plunges feverishly into the vice of gambling or she is kept away from it by her inborn economic sense of the uses of money.