Excerpt from The Golden Slipper: And Other Problems for Violet Strange
"She's here! I thought she would be. She's one of the three young ladies you see in the right-hand box near the proscenium."
The gentleman thus addressed - a man of middle age and a member of the most exclusive clubs - turned his opera glass toward the spot designated, and in some astonishment retorted:
"She? Why those are the Misses Pratt and ---"
"Miss Violet Strange; no other."
"I do ---"
"That you silly little chit, whose father I known, whose fortune I known, who is seen every-where, and who is called one of the season's belles is an agent of yours; a - a ---"
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