CHAPTER XX.

Sylvia talked of nothing else that night but Audrey Hope. She even forgot Lavarick, and she was too absorbed in her subject to notice that Mercy listened almost in silence, and that when she did make some response it was uttered in a tone even more subdued than usual. With a punctuality unusual, Audrey appeared at 29 Bury street at twelve o’clock the next day. There was no one in the room into which she was shown, but presently the door opened, and a slim, girlish figure dressed in a black merino came forward with …