“‘Simply say that I will.’”
“What else?”
“Not a word, miss.”
“Who is she?”
“One of the handsomest ladies I ever saw.”
“A lady?” said Nina, with a sneer.
“Yes, indeed, Miss De Sutro, one of the noblest of her sex if only half that is said of her goodness is true.”
“Yet she is the keeper of a border hotel and gambling-den?”
“True, miss, yet she’s a lady for all that.”
“Where was she going?”