Then would have come exposure and its consequences--damaging to You (_I_ should not have mattered), to my poor old 'father' down in Wales--whom I sincerely love--to Praddy, to Honoria....
"Let me be thankful to get off so easily! _Somme toute_, I have had a glorious time, have seen the world from the man's point of view--and I can assure you that from his point of view it is a jolly place to live in--_He_ can walk up and down the Strand and receive no insult.
"Well now, to relieve your anxieties, I will tell you, that after a brief visit to South Wales to recuperate from the exertions of that trial, Mr.David Williams the famous young barrister at the Criminal Bar will go abroad to investigate the White Slave Traffic.

Miss Vivien Warren privately believes--and hopes--that the horrors of this traffic in British womanhood are greatly exaggerated.

The lot in life of many of these young women is so bad in their native land that they cannot make it worse by going abroad, no matter in what avowed career.

But Mr.David Williams takes rather a higher line and is resolved in any case to get at the Truth.

Miss Warren, nathless, has her misgivings anent her old mamma, and would like to know what that old lady is doing at the present time, and whether she is past reform.