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They strolled along together, and presently Winsett said: ``Look here, what I'm really after is the name of the dark lady in that swell box of yours -- with the Beauforts, wasn't she? The one your friend Lefferts seems so smitten by.''
Archer, he could not have said why, was slightly annoyed. What the devil did Ned Winsett want with Ellen Olenska's name? And above all, why did he couple it with Lefferts's? It was unlike Winsett to manifest such curiosity; but after all, Archer remembered, he was a journalist.
``It's not for an interview, I hope?'' he laughed.
``Well -- not for the press; just for myself,'' Winsett rejoined. ``The fact is she's a neighbour of mine -- queer quarter for such a beauty to settle in -- and she's been awfully kind to my little boy, who fell down her area chasing his kitten, and gave himself a nasty cut. She rushed in bareheaded, carrying him in her arms, with his knee all beautifully bandaged, and was so sympathetic and beautiful that my wife was too dazzled to ask her name
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