Her Faithful Knight — page 259: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXV. HIS LIEGE LADY. Too much astonished to resist at first, Dorothy allowed Aylmer to lead her across the road and assist her into a four-wheeled cab, which he at once chartered. Not until he had given the direction: “Regent street ; drive slowly!’’ and the vehicle had begun to move, did she emerge from her stupefaction at his behavior, and proceed to question him upon it. | “Mr. Read, what does all this mean? I am not going to Regent street! I have to keep an appointment with my lawyers in Buckingham street, Strand. Please stop this cab at once. [ insist.” “Wait, please! You say you have to keep an appoint- ment. Do your lawyers expect you?” “Most certainly. I wrote to them last night, saying I would call between half-past four and five to-day.” “Giving them your address?” She hesitated a moment. “No,” she said at last. “I did not give them the address where I have been staying for the past few days. It was not necessary, and—and I did not want to have it known. But all this really cannot concern any one who is almost a stranger to me——” “It interests me because I am your friend. You must let me be that, Miss Knight. You are in great—in seri- ous danger.” “What danger ?” Eomicsoo S (E(0)