17/60 "Of course, I saw by your face you were a man of honour--a man one could trust or I would not have spoken to you. But--you promise me ?" "I promise you," I replied, naturally flattered. She was delicately pretty, and her quaint, oracular air, so incongruous with the dainty face and the fluffy brown hair, piqued me not a little. That special mysterious commodity of CHARM seemed to pervade all she did and said. As you have had experience, and can be recommended, I suppose, by Le Geyt's sister," with whom she had come, "no doubt you can secure an early vacancy." "Thanks so much," she answered, with that delicious smile. |