CHAPTER XXVII
His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her
suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent
thought. I hope you won’t think less of me, you’ve
treated me so well. ‘Ah, no,’ Gerald uttered at once, lowering his voice and infusing it with all the
promise he could command. I will wish you success or failure, whichever is the better for
you. This
was number 13, Montague Street, familiarly spoken of in the neighbourhood as
“White’s. "Beg pardon," he said, "but isn't smoking allowed in the dining room?"
"It probably is," answered Prudence, "but that in no wise mitigates the
odiousness of the procedure. He remained talking with her however. The
spectacle seemed to afford as much amusement to Jonathan as to the actors
engaged in it.
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