27/45 If we go to their flat, for a few days, we can look round us and find something cheap.' 'Where is it ?' said Nelly faintly. She knew hardly anything of London. Two visits--one to some cousins in West Kensington, another to a friend at Hampstead--together with the fortnight three years ago in the Bloomsbury boarding-house, when Bridget had had some grand scheme with a publisher which never came off, and Nelly had mostly stayed indoors with bad toothache:--her acquaintance with the great city had gone no further. Of its fashionable quarters both she and Bridget were entirely ignorant, though Bridget would not have admitted it. |