38
ALL PARTIES MUST END
Dorset Street was always busy. Now, it was getting ridiculous. It seemed as if every villain in London was passing through.
Mary strutted down the pavement, flanked by two ex-boxers who kept her apart from the crowds. She was escorted to the junction of Commercial Street, seen into a waiting carriage and whisked away south towards the river.
As her carriage passed through Aldgate, she saw Liza. She was also climbing into a waiting carriage very like the one she was in.
Wonder where she’s off to? she thought.
Liza felt the hairs on her neck stand up. She had the premonition of being watched. She spun her head, searching the crowds. She caught a girl in the back of a carriage just turning her head away. The thought, That’s Mary! passed through her mind, but she
