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I am long and lean and unlovely, I
know; but it is my consolation that I look irreproachably
respectable. Of the two I was infinitely the more disturbed by
the public attention. "Calm and unembarrassed as a fate" she
returned the popular gaze, and appeared somewhat bored by my
efforts to find Harry. In the midst of an earnest discussion
with the station-master she begged me for a penny to put into
an automatic sweetmeat machine, which she had seen a small
boy work successfully. I refused, curtly, and turned to the
station-master. A roar of laughter interrupted me again.
Carlotta, with outstretched hand and pleading eyes, like an
organ-grinder's monkey, had induced the boy to part with the
sticky bit of toffee, and was in the act of conveying it to
her mouth.
"I'll call to-morrow morning," said I hurriedly to the
station-master. "If the gentleman should come meanwhile,
tell him to leave his name and address."
Then I took Carlotta by the arm and, accompanied by my train of
satellites, I thrust her into the first hansom-cab I could see.


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