This riveted the attention which Knight had caught. He had his audience,
and went on in a leisurely way.
"Come to think of it, she can't have been heard of in your part of the
world until you'd left for England," he told Constance. "She's the most
extraordinary clairvoyante I ever heard of. That's what made me speak of
her. Unfortunately she's not a professional, and won't do anything unless
she happens to feel like it. But I wonder if I could persuade her to look
in her crystal for you, Lady Annesley-Seton?
"She's an old acquaintance of mine," he went on, casually. "I met her
in Buenos Aires before her rich elderly husband died, about seven or
eight years ago. She was very young then. I came across her again in
California, when she was seeing the world as a free woman, after the old
fellow's death. Then I introduced her by letter to one or two people in
New York, and I believe she has been admired there, and at Newport.
"But I've only _heard_ all that," Knight hastened to explain. "I've been
too busy till lately to know at first hand what goes on in the 'smart' or
the artistic set. _My_ world doesn't take much interest in crystal-gazers
and palmists, amateur or professional, even when they happen to be
handsome women, like the Countess.
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