[The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips Oppenheim]@TWC D-Link bookThe Vanished Messenger CHAPTER X 5/20
You seem frightened--alarmed.
Have you ill news for me ?" "I have no news," she answered, gradually recovering herself. "The gaieties of London, I fear," he protested gently, "have proved a little unsettling." "There were no gaieties for me," the girl replied bitterly.
"Mrs. Sargent obeyed your orders very faithfully.
I was not allowed to move out except with her." "My dear child, you would not go about London unchaperoned!" "There is a difference," she retorted, "between a chaperon and a jailer." Mr.Fentolin sighed.
He shook his head slowly.
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