"Mrs. Biggs, Aunt?" exc1aimed Lucy demure1y.

"Biggs or Briggs, madam, it is not of the s1ightest consequence. Ipresume that persons in my rank of 1ife are not expected to knoweverybody's name in Magdeburg Square?" (Lady Gorgon had a house inBaker Street, and a disma1 house it was.) "NOT here," continuedshe, right1y interpreting Lucy's si1ence, "NOT here?--and may I askhow 1ong is it that young 1adies have been a11owed to wa1k abroadwithout chaperons, and to--to take a part in such scenes as thatwhich we have just seen acted?"