Sheseemed to think he was merely the paymaster, handing over the meansof her freedom. And now she insisted that she MUST leave the chastenedsecurity of the Tredgold Women's College for Russell's unbridledclasses, and wanted to go to fancy dress dances in pirate costume andspend the residue of the night with Widgett's ramshackle girls in someindescribable hotel in Soho!He had done his best not to think about her at all, but the situationand his sister had become altogether too urgent.
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