‘Can’t have been a common housebreaker, you see,’ Hilary explained to
Lucilla, quite unnecessarily. "The door's open, and the
room empty. The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking
advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his
money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the
name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. “I wish you would come and see my lawyers. But understand me thoroughly: I am offering you this job because my
friend wants to help you. Without a single ornament about her neck, or hair, wearing the plainest
of black gowns, out of which her shoulders shone gleaming white, she was
easily the most noticeable and the most distinguished-looking woman in the
room.
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