Sybil had seen him leave
Upper Grosvenor Street with considerable misgiving, dreading lest his
interview with Mark should lead to trouble with Carrissima. She sighed
to remember his scepticism about Bridget's backsliding, and felt
confident that her brother was on his way to a very painful ordeal.
Jimmy, for his own part, had scarcely attempted to explain the
discrepancy between Sybil's story and his own ideal of Bridget.
Otherwise he might, perhaps, have come to the conclusion that
Carrissima had exaggerated, while Sybil had added a little more ghastly
colour. Sybil was sometimes given to that kind of trick.
That Mark was nothing to Bridget, never had been anything to her, Jimmy
felt certain. Driver had, indeed, dropped so completely out of her
life that it had not seemed worth while to take the trouble to go to
Weymouth Street in the hope of discovering a clue to her present
abiding-place. In any case, Jimmy reached the house this Monday
morning with a conviction that the scandalous fiction would at once be
exploded.
He came to the point at once.
"Rather an unpleasant business has brought me here, Mark," he
exclaimed.
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