Chapter X.—The Adventures of Margaret AdventAs Margaret Advent had said, Lieutenant Selby Fortescue was certainly a nice natured boy, and when, just outside the village in the dusk of that Friday evening, he picked her up in his car, he would have been distressed beyond measure had he known exactly what was passing in her mind.
He had been struck with her appearance each time he had called at Dunwich Hall, and had thought her as pretty a girl as he had seen in all his life, and like most young fellows of his age, being always ready for an adventure with one of the other s*x, and getting speech with her alone, that day when Herr Mitter was away from home, on the spur of the moment he had suggested they should have an outing together. He just meant to take her to some place of entertainment
