13/18 He was secretly repeating to himself: "Chichester, Chichester? Though, of course, it's not, as some people believe, a new type. There have always been girls of that sort in the civilized world." "It's quite true that the most curious thing about Bubbles," said Varick thoughtfully, "is a kind of thought-reading gift. I fancy she must have inherited it from an Indian ancestress, for her great-great-grandfather rescued a begum on her way to be burnt on her husband's funeral pyre. He ultimately married her, and though she never came to England. |