He might tarry at these tables, he thought, but he must remember to look bored in the near presence of Henshaw.

The Spanish girl of yesterday appeared and he greeted her warmly.

"I got some cigarettes this time," he said, "so let me pay you back all those I smoked of yours yesterday." Together they filled the golden case that hung from her girdle.
"It's swell, all right," said the girl, gazing about the vast room now filling with richly clad gamblers.
"But I thought it was all over except the tenement-house scenes where Vera Vanderpool has gone to relieve the poor," he said.
The girl explained.

"This scene comes before the one we did yesterday.
It's where the rich old boy first sees Vera playing roulette, and she loses a lot of money and is going to leave her string of pearls, but he says it's a mere trifle and let him pay her gambling losses, so in a weak moment she does, and that's how he starts to get her into his power.

You'll see how it works out.