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The love-affair of Enid Challenger and Edward Malone is not of the / slightest interest to the reader, for the simple reason that it is not / of the slightest interest to the writer. The unseen, unnoticed lure of / the unborn babe is common to all youthful humanity. We deal in this / chronicle with matters which are less common and of higher interest. It / is only mentioned in order to explain those terms of frank and intimate / comradeship which the narrative discloses. If the human race has / obviously improved in anything -- in Anglo-Celtic countries, at least -- it / is that the prim affectations and sly deceits of the past are lessened, / and that young men and women can meet in an equality of clean and honest / comradeship.
A taxi took the adventurers down Edgware Road and into the side-street / called "Helbeck Terrace. " Halfway down, the dull line of brick houses / was broken by one glowing gap, where an open arch threw a flood of light / into the street. The cab pulled up and the man opened the door.