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Mascani turned to the girl with a smile that tended to calm her fears.
She had been through too many bitter troubles and humiliations to care much what happened now. There was something about Mascani that won her confidence. To begin with he looked so different from the men she had recently been in contact with--he looked a gentleman. Anita recognised that at a glance. The man's style and manner, the way he carried his evening dress, appealed to her. She smiled faintly in return.