The next evening Alexander dined alone at a club, and at about nine o'clock he dropped in at the Duke of York's.

The house was sold out and he stood through the second act.

When he returned to his hotel he examined the new directory, and found Miss Burgoyne's address still given as off Bedford Square, though at a new number.

He remembered that, in so far as she had been brought up at all, she had been brought up in Bloomsbury.

Her father and mother played in the provinces most of the year, and she was left a great deal in the care of an old aunt who was crippled by rheumatism and who had had to leave the stage altogether.