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"What?" he continued. "They didn't even tell you about Miss
Wilberforce? Well, whether she thought it was her birthday, or whether
all these omens upset her nerves--Oh, the usual thing, only rather
more so. Decidedly more so. It was late at night, you see, and she
insisted on singing 'Auld Lang Syne,' and even on translating it, for
the benefit of the constable who arrested her, into her own particular
brand of Italian. In fact, there was a good deal of trouble, till
somebody let down a blanket from a window. It happened to be a new
policeman unaccustomed to her ways, and he has had a bad shock. His
wife complained to the judge, who set round word to me this morning
that she was in the lock-up."
"In prison. An English lady!"
"It is not the first time by any means. But I feel exactly as you do
about it. I've bailed her out, and stopped his mouth with a fifty-franc
note. Please keep this between ourselves."
Mr. Heard was not pleased to learn this incident. It seemed a
discordant note on Nepenthe.


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