22/30 How could I think otherwise ?" "We are all mad, more or less, Talbot," rejoined Mr.Clendon, with the flicker of a grim smile on his thin lips. "But this young girl--I have taken her misery to heart. If you had seen her as I have seen her--but you haven't, and I have to try to impress her case on you, enlist your sympathies, as well as I can. She is a lady, not by birth, perhaps, but by instinct and training. |