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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...to sit down, but none of the benches were unoccupied, and, in any case, she knew that Lady Isabel would be shocked at her doing such a thing, under no better chaperonage than that of a maid. Quite conscious of her own unreason, she yet said fretfully: "I really can't get all the way home, unless I can sit down and rest somewhere." She had only said it to relieve her own sense of fatigue and irritability, and was surprised when Holland replied in a tone of reasonable suggestion: "There's the convent just close to Bryanston Square, Miss. You can always go in there--it's always open." "What convent?" Holland named the Order of the house at Liege where Alex had been at school. She exclaimed at the coincidence. "I thought their London house was in the East End." "Yes, Miss," Holland explained, becoming suddenly voluble. "But the Sisters opened a new house last year. I went to the consecration of the chapel. It was a beautiful ceremony, Miss." "Of course, you're a Catholic, aren't you? I forgot." "Yes, Miss," said Holland, stiffening. It was evident that the fact to which Alex referred so lightly was of supreme importance to her. "Well, a church is better than nowhere in this heat," said Miss Clare disconsolately. Lady Isabel had decreed nearly two years ago that churchgoing, at all events during the season, was incompatible with late nights, and Alex had acquiesced without much difficulty. Religion did not interest her, and she had kept up no intercourse with the nuns at Liege since leaving school. Holland, looking at once shocked and rather excited, pointed out the tall, narrow building, wedged into a line of similar buildings, with a high flight of steps leading to the op...