"Ja pukenus, slut of the gutter," she shook her fist, and Chaldea, with an insulting laugh, moved away.

"Bengis your see! Bengis your see! And that, my generous lady," she added, turning round with a sudden resumption of her fawning respectability, "means 'the devil in your heart,' which I spoke witchly-like to the child.

Ah, but she's a bad one." Miss Greeby laughed outright.

"This is more like the real thing." "Poor Chaldea," said Lambert.

"You're too hard on her, mother." "And you, my sweet gentleman, ain't hard enough.