Whilst she was accepting my belated courtesy, Barbara continued to smile and said: "You mustn't look on us as strangers, Mrs.Prescott.We are all Mr.
Chayne's oldest and most intimate friends." "Do tell us what the row was ?" said Jaffery.
Liosha took calm stock of us, and seeing that we were a pleasant-faced and by no means an antagonistic assembly--even Doria's curiosity lent her a semblance of a sense of humour--she relaxed her Olympian serenity and laughed a little, shewing teeth young and strong and exquisitely white.
"I am here, Jaff Chayne," she said, "because Euphemia is a damn fool.
She took me this morning to your big street--the one where all the shops are--" "My dear lady," said Adrian, "there are about a hundred miles of such streets in London." "There's only one--" she snapped her fingers, recalling the name--"only one Regent Street, I ever heard of," she replied crushingly.

"It was Regent Street.

Euphemia took me there to shew me the shops.

She made me mad.

For when I wanted to go in and buy things she dragged me away.