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laid theh

it, cutting the pages with a blunt edge of her knife It was all very

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the , and the crystal entle at the s strain ofthrough theShe tasted a bite, and she read

a word or two, and she sipped the as The price of it made no difference She counted the

money out to the waiter and left an extra coin on his tray, whereupon he

bowed before her as before a princess of royal blood

There was still money in her purse, and her next temptation presented

itself in the shape of a matinee poster

It was a little later when she entered the theatre, the play had begun

and the house seemed to her to be packed But there were vacant

seats here and there, and into one of them she was ushered, between