She might have heard it from Miriam Liston; for their journey back to Gemosac had occupied nearly a week.
On learning the good news, Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence had promptly grasped the situation; for she was very quick in thought and deed.

The money would be wanted at once.

She had gone to Turner's office to withdraw it in person.
Dormer Colville bought a flower in a shop in the Rue de la Paix, and had it affixed to his buttonhole by the handmaid of Flora, who made it her business to linger over the office with a gentle familiarity no doubt pleasing enough to the majority of her clients.
Colville was absent-minded as he drove, in a hired carriage, to the Rue Lafayette.

He was wondering whether Mrs.St.Pierre Lawrence's maid had any grounds for stating that a mishap to him would touch her mistress's heart.

He was a man of unbounded enterprise; but, like many who are gamblers at heart, he was superstitious.