As he passed out he saw in the hall a quietly dressed man with keen grey eyes, talking to one of the footmen. What hotel should she go to? If she told a cabman to drive to an hotel, any hotel, what would he do—or say? He might drive to something dreadfully expensive, and not at all the quiet sort of thing she required. "You poor child!" said Prudence. . "She is in his power, and I am here, chained hand and foot, unable to assist her. Sir John gave his order, deliberately stumbling now and then over a word, and anglicizing others. The latter took from his pocket a small note-book and pencil. I somehow understood. That is the age when Sebastianus took me for his bride. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small, whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and her bags. What was yet more worthy of note was, that the widow's countenance had an air of refinement about it, of which it was utterly destitute before, and which seemed to intimate that her true position in society was far above that wherein accident had placed her. When the prisoner was brought into this room, he was again questioned; but, continuing contumacious, preparations were made for inflicting the torture.
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