CHAPTER XIV. “The fact of it is, and this absurd project of yours only brings it to a head, you have begun to get hold of some very queer ideas about what a young lady in your position may or may not venture to do. ‘Think it’s worth getting some sort of light and following her down there?’ asked Roding. . His face was white. But he didn’t marry her. "Crime upon crime. It was as if she had come upon the beautiful marble façade of a fairy palace, was invited to enter, and behind the door—nothing. If one wants a thing very much, perhaps one is inclined to think one can’t have it. "Why do you laugh?" he asked. Capes bore a face of infinite perplexity. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account.
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