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hed the landing and she waited for Arnold to open the door leading into the private room, "how is the little invalid girl this morning?" "The little invalid girl is well," Arnold replied. "She was not too tired yesterday, I hope?" Fenella asked. "Not in the least," Arnold assured her. "We both of us felt that we did not thank you half enough for our wonderful day." "Oh, la, la!" Fenella exclaimed. "It was a whim of mine, that is all. I liked having you both there. Some day you must come again, and, if you are very good, I may let you bring the young lady, though I'm not so sure of that. Do you know that my brother was asking me questions about her until I thought my head would swim last night?" she continued, curiously. "Count Sabatini was very kind to her," Arnold remarked. "Poor little girl, I am afraid she is going to have rather a rough time. She had quite an alarming experience last night after our return." "You must tell me all about it presently," Fenella declared. "Shall we take this little round table near the window? It will be delightful, that, for when we are tired with one another we can watch the people in the street. Have you ever sat and watched the people in the street, Arnold?" "Not often," he answered, giving his hat to a waiter and following her across the little room. "You see, there are not many people to watch from the windows of where I live, but there is always the river." "A terribly dreary place," Fenella declared. Arnold shook his head. "Don't believe it," he replied. "Only a short time ago, the days were very dark indeed. Ruth and I together did little else except watch the barges come up, and the slowly moving vessels, and the lights, and the swarms of people on Blackfriars Bridge. Life was all watching then." "One would weary soon," she murmured, "of being a spectator. You are scarcely that now." "There has been a great change," he answered simply. "In those days I was very near starvation. I had no idea how I was going to find work. Yet even then I found myself longing for adventures of any sort,--anything to quicken the blood, to feel the earth swell beneath my feet." She was watching him with that curious look in her eyes which he never wholly understood--half mocking, half tender. "And after all," she murmured, "you found your way to Tooley Street and the office of Mr. Samuel Weatherley." She threw herself back in her chair and laughed so irresistibl
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