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Oh,
I am beginning to understand the creatures.'
'I am afraid you are beginning to be wise. Remember that knowledge of
evil was the prelude to the Fall. Well, good-bye.'
'Won't you stay to lunch?'
'No, thanks, I never lunch--frightful waste of time. I shall drop in at
the _Haute Gomme_ and take a cup of tea later on.'
The _Haute Gomme_ was a new club in Piccadilly, which Maulevrier and
some of his friends affected.
Lesbia went towards the drawing-room door with her brother, and just as
he reached the door she laid her hand caressingly upon his shoulder. He
turned and stared at her, somewhat surprised, for he and she had never
been given to demonstrations of affection.
'Maulevrier, I want you to do me a favour,' she said, in a low voice,
blushing a little, for the thing she was going to ask was a new thing
for her to ask, and she had a deep sense of shame in making her demand.
'I--I lost money at Nap last night. Only seventeen pounds. Mr. Smithson
and I were partners, and he paid my losses. I want to pay him
immediately, and----'
'And you are too hard up to do it.


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