“You must know,” replied Belle, “that I’m not the same sort of woman as Daisy Arrow — a hundred pounds isn’t so very much to me.”
“No?” he replied in an expressionless voice. “Well, perhaps what you can do for that hundred pounds is not so much to me. I have been acquitted of a very absurd charge, the mistake the police made is causing quite a scandal.”
“Quite a scandal,” echoed Belle. “We had better be careful; we are in a neighbourhood where we are both quite well known; let us turn by the back streets towards the City, now we’re beginning to get near the neighbourhood of Holborn again.”
Muttering, “I don’t know my way about your infernal town,” the young man followed Belle’s directions.
“Please walk quite close to me and listen clearly to what I have to say,” she said. “You think th
