’ ‘Very true. Very slowly emerging out of a phase of stupefaction, these personal affairs and her personal problem resumed possession of her mind. In consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the metropolis. Yet, I suppose that at the present moment I am the most envied man in the room. Briefly, with a careless wave towards the couple, the comtesse presented them as Monsieur and Madame Valade. She vanished from the laboratory for a week, a week of oddly interesting days. Only one thing emerged with any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage was an experience to be strenuously evaded. “I am afraid your broken dinner engagement will not be so easy to explain. What they do with him afterward is off my ticket, no concern of James Boyle; they can lock him up or let him go. ‘That there governess didn’t like it, of course, me being the lodgekeeper’s girl, and Martha just a country wench like me. "I told you I was not unprotected. But at this point he was still subservient, still outwardly humble, in spite of the blackhearted villainy that was even then burgeoning in his breast.
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