16/38 He recognized her as the woman who had stared after him when he left Austin Turold's lodgings, but he could not conjecture the object of her visit. But I was Mary Pleasington before I was married. I remember you very well, but I suppose that I have changed." Mr.Brimsdown recalled the name with a start of surprise. He found it difficult to recognize, in the faded woman before him, the pretty daughter of his old client, Sir Roger Pleasington, whose debts and lawsuits had been compounded by death ten years before. He remembered his daughter as a budding beauty, with the airs and graces of a pretty girl who imagines her existence to be of some importance in the world. |