17/35 "I've been searching for you everywhere. But my heart told me you would come, and my heart rarely deceives me." Sally spoke in a tone of sincerity, and maybe for once she was sincere. He was in that condition of nervous excitement to be strongly affected by her sensuous beauty. He was stammering something in reply when a man in a puce satin coat and a flowered brocaded waistcoat thrust himself rudely between them. Permit me to enlighten you." He spoke in an insolent tone, and Sally turned upon him in fury and bade him begone. |