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"That's going too far, sir. Shall we lock her up?"

Even the janitor, who only cared about how much tip he could get, couldn't stand Mary's sloppy cheating. He made a seemingly feasible suggestion to his master: "Let's not let her go out from here. In this way, she will not be able to ruin your reputation outside, just find a small abandoned storage room and lock her there," the janitor paused when he said this, gave Alred a look, and at the same time used The hand made a terrible gesture: "No one can survive a house with nothing but darkness, sir, no one, just shut it up for a few days, and she will say everything, what do you want to do with her then It's all good."

This method sounded as terrible as dealing with those mentally disturbed patients. Mary must have heard the meaning behind Tonsal's father, and she glanced at the janitor.

"This method is useless to me, besides, he will not do such a thing." Mary said, she shrugged: "If he could do such a cruel thing, he would have been accused Loniel took a piece of abduction and abducted him, that guy always only attacked harmless lambs, and would not provoke wolves that could kill people."

"It doesn't make me happy at all to get that kind of evaluation from you."

Alred suppressed his anger. He stared at Mary for a long time, as if he was really thinking about the feasibility of Papa Tongsal's suggestion, but in the end he turned his head to look at Louis and gave up this terrible idea. .

"I'll give you some bread and wine, and get out of me when you're done eating, and don't let me see you again," Alred said to Mary, his voice as if squeezed through a crack in the stone: "I don't want to argue with women, but I won't let you stay either. There is no room for you here."

The Moore Street woman who heard these words just gave Alred a casual sideways glance.

"If I get out of here, you'll never see me again in your life, Alred," said Mary, who didn't look like she was joking this time. It is impossible to find where Sologne is by following me, but you will surely find that you will not even find me in the end, swear to the Virgin Mary."

"you!"

This witch has a strange magical power like a gypsy. She made Alred feel annoyed and helpless: "No one wants to follow you. I told you, there is no room for you here. I also don't like having outsiders staying where I live."

"It doesn't cost you much to keep me here. All I need is a floor and a wall to shelter from the wind. The living room, the kitchen, the stable, you can let me sleep wherever you want." Mary said, She completely ignored Alred's last words, giggled, turned her head and gave the porter a wink: "Of course, if you want me to sleep in your porter's place, let him I have no problem with being my guard. But when someone comes to visit you, I will take half of the tip he gets."

"Ah, ah, sir..."

What's worse, the janitor seemed really moved by this proposal. He stared at Mary's feet moving restlessly under the skirt, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Sir, this, I You should be able to look after her..."

"Okay, Father Tongsar, look at your embarrassing appearance!"

Alred glared at the janitor rather annoyedly, even Peter's father couldn't see it, and bumped the janitor with his shoulder, which forced the janitor to put away those shameful thoughts.

"If you want to stay here, don't bring your manners in. I don't want to be called by the police and say that I have taken in a... a woman who is not indiscreet."

After thinking about walking up and down the living room for a while, Alrede suddenly changed his mind, and he turned his head to warn Mary sternly—in the end, he still couldn't do anything cruel to this woman, even The word "prostitute" could not be said to her.

"Al, what's wrong with you?"

Louis had no idea that Alrede changed his attitude in just a short time. He guessed that the biggest factor was Mary's words "You will never find me again", but anyway, putting such a The woman he seemed to be the enemy put in his home, it was a joke: "Al, we can't do this, we already have a Mary, we don't need another one."

"Ah, my dear Mr. Coin."

Mary fiddled with the strap used to fix her hair cap, and spoke to Louis easily before Alred spoke: "If you think there should not be two Marys at the same time, I can change my name to— —What do you think of 'Margaret'? It's a much better name than 'Mary', isn't it?"

"Is it just a matter of names?"

For a moment, Louis almost suspected that Mary had not come here to seek asylum, but to provoke them on purpose-Margaret was the name of Al's beloved girl, how could this woman not know?Did she do it on purpose?Could it be that her accomplices are just outside 79 St. George Street, waiting for her to be kicked out of here and then start some conspiracy?

"Mary, stop challenging my patience, or I'm not sure I'll throw you out of here right away."

Even though he had made up his mind not to associate with Margaret, Alred could not tolerate Mary making fun of his beloved woman, and for his stern warning, Mary just shrugged.

"Well then, gentlemen," she said, "then what would you like me to be called? If you want, I could be Mary, Margaret, Angel, Misselle, or even the Virgin Mary, or Any actress you like will do. Ah, let me see, there seems to be an actress called Claudia who has had good luck in recent years. She is one of the few in Paris who has never been so Good woman managed to become one of the much better women, maybe I can call myself Claudia too, see if I can get lucky too."

After being interrupted by Mary, Louis suddenly remembered that the reason why she said that Baroness Claudia de Portandière was "good luck" to marry the baron, and that she was married to the baron from a lowly status. The actor became a noble lady because she was the lover of Viscount Callister de Durand, and Callister gave her a large dowry, which was known throughout Paris.

"The name Claudia is rare. I don't want others to misunderstand what I think about Viscount de Durand's lover. Can't you think of another name?"

Alred said a little impatiently that he didn't seem to see Louis's uncomfortable moment - of course, it is also possible that he did it on purpose: "Where is your identity passport? I don't care what name you change, but if you If you want to stay, you must give me your identity passport, otherwise you will go out from here by yourself."

Mary glanced in the direction where the maid had just walked out.

"Why hasn't my bread come yet? I'll give it to you when I finish eating."

"No, you must give it to me immediately."

Alred insisted on getting Mary's passport first, but it proved to be a very wrong decision--for the woman had hidden the passport in her garter; When he pulled out the passport from the suspenders with a smile, except for Papa Thongsar staring intently at the scenery under the skirt (of course, Papa Peter quickly corrected the inappropriate behavior of the guy next to him) , the two gentlemen present and others all wished they could dive headlong into the fissure.

"You are never allowed to do such a disrespectful thing again."

After getting the identity passport in his hand, Alred flipped through it and made sure it was not forged, so he forced to warn Mary nonchalantly: "If you can't be a dignified woman, at least you can look decent. If you don’t, I will drive you out of here. In addition, you are not allowed to touch the fire source, food and keys here, and no matter where you go, there must be other people by your side.”

"Oh, I see, gentlemen."

Mary giggled, obviously very pleased with her success in teasing Alred: "So can you ask that sweet little girl named Mary to bring me bread? By the way, I decided to change my name— — just 'Moina,' so you won't confuse me with her."