“She said, ‘I don’t know. I have never been there before today.’ That’s all until we got to the terminus, then I asked her if I could get her luggage. ‘I haven’t any,’ she said. ‘Could I get her a cab?’ I asked. Yes, I might get her a cab. I went and found a cab and put her in it; and, if I had a shadow of a doubt as to her being a lady, the way in which she thanked me would have dispelled it. I asked her where I should direct the cabman to drive, and she said 24 Cheltenham Terrace. And—and then she went.”
“Well?”
“Well, I—of course you’ll call me a fool, Jack, I am quite aware of that—I followed in another cab.”
“Good heavens! You’ve been drinking!”
“No. I followed, and when she had gone I knocked at the door of the next house and asked the name of the people who lived next door. They—for a wonder—were civil, and told me. She lives with her grandfather, and her name is Laura Treherne.”
CHAPTER XVI.
“Her name is Laura Treherne,” said Leonard.
“Laura Treherne. Never heard the name before.”
“Nor I, but it belongs to the most beautiful creature I have ever seen.”