8/12 He said: "Ah, yes! Excuse me!" and got out. His conduct was very like the conduct of a man who had got in to keep an assignation with a lady, and found that lady sitting next his aunt. She was unable to see a soul who seemed to foster this view, and sat thinking that he was "rather attractive." Suddenly her dark busy eyes lighted on the figure of the little model strolling along again. 'Ah! Yes, really! How very interesting!' Hilary, to avoid meeting the girl point-blank, had turned up a by-street, and, finding a convenient corner, waited. |