"Gerty Lovell!" exclaimed the captain, "why, I've always been told
the Lovell girls hadn't a penny among them."
"The old man's stone broke, I know for a certainty," volunteered
Teddy, who picked up a mysterious but, in other respects,
satisfactory income in an office near Hatton Garden, and who was
candour itself concerning the private affairs of everybody but
himself.
"Oh, some rich pork-packing or diamond-sweating uncle has cropped
up in Australia, or America, or one of those places," suggested the
captain, "and Billy's got wind of it in good time. Billy knows his
way about."
We agreed that some such explanation was needed, though in all
other respects Gerty Lovell was just the girl that Reason (not
always consulted on these occasions) might herself have chosen for
"Blase Billy's" mate.
The sunlight was not too kind to her, but at evening parties, where
the lighting has been well considered, I have seen her look quite
girlish. At her best she was not beautiful, but at her worst there
was about her an air of breeding and distinction that always saved
her from being passed over, and she dressed to perfection.
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