” She realized it was possible to be sorry for him—acutely sorry for the situation. "Taber," said the manager; "Taber is the name. How I could have been such a fool I’ll never know. I would even have taken a place as waitress in a tea shop. The tired woman looked up in inquiring silence at Ann Veronica’s diffident entry. ‘It is all too probable that she would wish to change into lay clothing to escape recognition. It has come,—and sooner than you expected.