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He most certainly had enough money to buy everybody drinks last night. Yet she was aware that his coat was somewhat threadbare and so was his silk tie. Perhaps, she contemplated, he had lost all his money in some way and she thought that it could not have been through gambling for he seemed such a sensible person. Her father had always said, “Only fools gamble at cards or with the counters because the odds eventually are always against them.” ‘I am sure that Mr. Field is a very clever man,’ Alysia told herself. She did not know why, but she knew that he was unmistakably a gentleman of whom her father would have fully approved. He spoke as if he was well-educated and had obviously attended one of the top schools in the country. He might even have been to a University as well. Her fa