The Broken Pitcher

The Broken Pitcher
The Jewel Casket
The Kitchen Maid
The Lady of Shalott
"Well, I can assure you you're quite wrong. I mean, she's been most carefullybrought up, she's been at very strict schools, she's been in a very select finishing establishment in Italy. I should know ifthere was anything of that kind going on. I dare say she's metone or two pleasant young fellows and all that, but I'm surethere's been nothing of the kind you suggest."
　　"Well, my diagnosis is a boy friend – and probably an undesirable one."
　　"But why, Richard, why? What do you know aboutyoung girls?"
　　"Quite a lot," saidEgerton dryly. "I've had threeclients in the last year, two of whom were made wards of court and the third one managedto bully her parents into agreeing to an almost