Chapter XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT AT LAST At exactly ten minutes past ten Annabel rang the bell of her sister’s flat. Grimly Hilary smiled to himself at the effect of Gerald’s name. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to be turned to account hereafter. It wasn’t anything splendid, you know. It would have been very well if she had been some common creature who might have been bought off. . ‘Bon. Now I shall never hear it but what this evening will come pouring back over me. E. . The young ladies in the somewhat mixed society amongst which he moved neither satisfied his taste nor appealed in any way to his affections. And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. Breakfast was laid for one, a dish of fruit and a shining coffee equipage. It was like pouring a strong acid over dulled metal. At this gate two paths meet.
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