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I wonder whether it is for herself or for some 'Committee'? The longer
she talks the more I shall have to give. But I do not believe she is
near-sighted."
She plucked up her courage and said:
"My name is Miss Maud Matchin."
Farnham bowed, and rejoined:
"My name is----"
She laughed outright, and said:
"I know well enough what your name is, or why should I have come here?
Everybody knows the elegant Mr. Farnham."
The smile faded from his face. "She is more ill-bred than I suspected,"
he thought; "we will condense this interview."
He made no reply to her compliment, but looked steadily at her, waiting
to hear what she wanted, and thinking it was a pity she was so vulgar,
for she looked like the huntress Diana.
Her eyes fell under his glance, which was not at all reassuring. She
said in almost a humble tone:
"I have come to ask a great favor of you. I am in a good deal of
trouble."
"Let us see what it is, and what we can do," said Farnham, and there
was no longer any banter in his voice.
She looked up with sudden pleasure, and her glasses fell from her eyes.


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