Brooks, who would not have believed
him capable of such a thing, for a moment doubted his eyes.
"I am much obliged for your candour," Lord Arranmore said, coldly, and
with complete self-recovery. "Don't trouble to come to the door.
Good-evening."
Brooks was alone. He sat down in one of the big easy-chairs, and for a
moment forgot that empty stall next to Selina. He had seen the first
sign of weakness in a man whom he had judged to be wholly and entirely
heartless.
CHAPTER III
MARY SCOTT'S TWO VISITORS
"I AM sure," he said, "that Selina would consider this most improper."
"You are quite right," Mary assured him, laughing. "It was one of the
first things she mentioned. When I told her that I should ask any one
to tea I liked she was positively indignant."
"It is hard to believe that you are cousins," he remarked.
"We were brought up very differently."
He looked around him. He was in a tiny sitting-room of a tiny flat high
up in a great building. Out of the window he seemed to look down upon
the Ferris wheel. Inside everything was cramped but cosy.
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