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'I suppose you have been making up to her.'
'Nothing in earnest. She seemed to me to like admiration, so I
told her I admired her.'
'What did she say then?'
'Upon my word, you seem to be very great at cross-examining.
Perhaps you had better go back and ask her.'
'I will next time I see her.' Then he stepped into his cab, and
in a loud voice ordered the man to drive him to the Zoo. But when
he had gone a little way up Portland Place, he stopped the driver
and desired that he might be taken back again to the hotel. As he
left the vehicle he looked round for Dolly, but Dolly had
certainly gone. Then he told the waiter to take his card to Miss
Boncassen, and explain that he had something to say which he had
forgotten.
'So you have come back again?' said Miss Boncassen, laughing.
'Of course I have. You didn't suppose I was going to let that
fellow get the better of me. Why should I be turned out because he
made an ass of himself?'
'Who said he made an ass of himself?'
'But he had; hadn't he?'
'No;--by no means,' said she after a little pause.
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