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42 why should he make any conditions? He's not an ass either. You see it would be a bore," Nash continued while the hansom waited, "because if she were to do anything of that sort she would make him pay for the sacrifice."

"Oh yes, she'd make him pay for the sacrifice," Sherringham repeated.

"And then, when he had paid, she'd go back to her footlights," Gabriel added, explicatively, from the curbstone, as Sherringham closed the apron of the cab.

"I see—she'd go back—good-night," Peter replied. "Please go on!" he cried to the driver through the hole in the roof. And when the vehicle rolled away he subjoined to himself: "Of course she would—and quite right!"