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Diana laughed and nodded, but did not contradict her husband. "Well, my dear," she said, "I think we have discussed the subject pretty freely, but there is one thing I should like to know. What about the Silent House in Pimlico?" "Oh, Miss Greeb told me the other day that Peacock is going to pull it down.
What of that?" said Denzil impatiently. "This much, Mr. Denzil, that Blinders has gone round the square, after seeing Mr. Berwin, and has seen shadows two or three of them on the sitting-room blind. Now, sir," cried Miss Greeb, clinching her argument, "if Mr. Berwin came into the square alone, how did his visitors get in?" "Perhaps by the back," conjectured Lucian.
But the cat made no comment on this tearful address not as much as a mew. It rolled over into a warmer place and went to sleep again. Cats are particularly selfish animals. Two days afterwards Miss Greeb opened the door to a tall and beautiful lady, who asked for Mr. Denzil, and was shown into his sitting-room.
"I might have guessed it," gasped Miss Greeb to a comfortable cat which lay selfishly before the fire. "He's far too good-looking not to be snapped up. He'll be leaving me and setting up house with that other woman. I only hope she'll do for him as well as I have done. I wonder if she's beautiful and rich. Oh, how dreadful it all is!"
"He may dislike his fellow-men, and desire to live a secluded life." Miss Greeb still shook her head. "He may dislike his fellow-men," she said with emphasis, "but that don't keep him from seeing them ah! that it don't." "Is there anything wrong in that?" said Lucian, contemptuous of these cobweb objections. "Perhaps not, Mr. Denzil; but where do those he sees come from?"
Therefore, the person must be known to the owner of that house, and I must discover who the owner is. Miss Greeb will know." Lucian made this last remark with the greatest confidence, as he was satisfied, from a long acquaintance with his landlady, that there was very little concerning her own neighbourhood of which she was ignorant.
It is true that he had no legal authority to make these inquiries, and it was possible that Mrs. Bensusan might refuse to answer questions concerning her own business, unsanctioned by law; but on recalling the description of Miss Greeb, Lucian fancied that Mrs. Bensusan, as a fat woman, might only be good-natured and timid.
The result verified his belief, for when Miss Greeb came in to clear the table a duty she invariably undertook so as to have a chance of conversing with her admired lodger she was able to afford him the fullest information on the subject.
With keen instinct, Miss Greeb decided that this was the woman who had taken possession of Lucian's heart, and being a just little creature, in spite of her jealousy, was obliged to admit that the visitor was as handsome as a picture.
He is a mystery, sir, that's what Mr. Berwin is, and I don't care if he hears me commit myself so far." "In what way is he a mystery?" demanded Denzil, approaching the matter with more particularity. "Why," said Miss Greeb, evidently puzzled how to answer this leading question, "no one can find out anything about him. He's full of secrets and underhand goings on.
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