neither of
them be
ruled out
as wholly
impossible.
Mallinson,
who
sometimes
came to
listen to
the music
for want
of
anything
better to
do, found
her a very
baffling
proposition.
“I can’t
think what
she’s
doing
here,” he
said to
Conway
more than
once.
“This lama
business
may be all
right for
an old
fellow
like
Chang, but
what’s the
attraction
in it for
a girl?
How long
has she
been here,
I wonder?”
“I wonder
too, but
it’s one
of those
things
we’re not
