cheap fittings Mrs. Carteret had given her as
a girl, which would hold all she needed. And then she remembered that
she had something she would like to take away; it was a nurse's apron,
and in its pocket a nurse's case of small instruments. They were what
she used when nursing with the district nurse in the village at home.
Then she sat down and wrote a cheque and a note, and proceeded to take
them downstairs. The cheque was for L30 out of the little Dexter cheque
book, and the note was an abrupt little line to tell a friend that she
could not dine out that night. She "did not feel up to it" was the only
excuse given, and a furious hostess declared that Miss Dexter had become
perfectly insufferable. She seemed to think that she could do exactly as
she chose because she was absurdly rich.

The butler was able to give Molly L30 in notes and cash, and it was his
opinion that she wanted the money for playing cards that night. Molly
crept upstairs again with a foreign Bradshaw in her hand. She looked out
the train for the night boat to Dieppe. It left Charing Cross at 9.45.
She had chosen Dieppe for the first stage of her journey--of which she
knew not the further direction--for two reasons. The first was because
she knew that she ought to stay within reach if it were necessary for
her to do business with her own or Lady Rose's solicitors. She was
determined not to give any trouble she could avoid giving, in the
business of handing over that which had never belonged to her. At this
time of year the journey to Dieppe would be no difficulty, and she
wanted to go there rather than to Boulogne or any other French port,
because she had the address of a very cheap and clean _pension_ in which
Miss Carew had passed some weeks before coming to live with Molly in
London. From that _pension_ Molly could write the letters she felt
physically incapable of writing to-night. The only note she determined
to write at once was to Carey, asking her to remain at Westmoreland
House and to tell the servants that Miss Dexter had gone abroad. She
told her that she had gone to the _pension_ at Dieppe, but earnestly
insisted that she should not follow her. She begged her to do nothing
before getting a letter that she would write to her at once on arriving
at Dieppe. She also asked her to keep the key of the safe which she
enclosed in her letter. Molly sealed the letter, and then felt some
hesitation as to when and how to give it to Miss Carew. She