She didn't remember no such name among the young ladies of the Peach Blossom Company, but she would h'inquire.

They was a ladies' drawin'-room upstairs, if he would like to sit down.

She conducted him to the ladies' drawing-room, which boasted two pairs of torn lace curtains, a set of dirty furniture with plush trimmings, several lithographs of mellow Oriental scenes somewhat undecidedly poised upon the wall, and a marble-topped centre-table around which were disposed at careful intervals three or four copies of last year's illustrated papers.

"You can w'yt'ere, sir," she said, installing him as it were.

"I'll let you know directly." At the end of the corridor the girl met Elfrida herself, who took the card with that quickening of her pulse, that sudden commotion which had come to represent to her, in connection with any critical personal situation, one of the keenest possible sensations of pleasure.