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Rh member with whom, apparently, Mrs. Jordan's avocations had most happened to throw her. She was only a little puzzled at the 'separation.' 'Well, at any rate,' she smiled, 'if they separate as friends!'

'Oh, his lordship takes the greatest interest in Mr. Drake's future. He'll do anything for him; he has in fact just done a great deal. There must, you know, be changes!'

'No one knows it better than I,' the girl said. She wished to draw her interlocutress out. 'There will be changes enough for me.'

'You're leaving Cocker's?'

The ornament of that establishment waited a moment to answer, and then it was indirect. 'Tell me what you're doing.'

'Well, what will you think of it?'

'Why, that you've found the opening you were always so sure of.'

Mrs. Jordan, on this, appeared to muse with embarrassed intensity. 'I was always sure, yes and yet I often wasn't!'

'Well, I hope you're sure now. Sure, I mean, of Mr. Drake.'