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Children's Day at Ranelagh, or at Lords on the day of the Eton and Harrow match.
    We did not stay long on the terrace but mounted to the restaurant on the first floor, the girls being much amused at the number of mirrors that decorated the staircase. There we enjoyed a most excellent lunch and consumed between us a bottle and a half of champagne.
    Evelyn and Nora had become quite merry and their colour had risen, so I thought that the rime had now come to speak of what, no doubt, was in the minds of all of us.
    'Now, tell me, Evelyn,' I said, 'does your friend know about our conversation on the boat?'
    'Oh!' said Evelyn laughing a little nervously, 'if she didn't she wouldn't be here!'
    Nora blushed deeply but began to laugh too.
    'Capital!' said I. 'Now tell me frankly. Are you both prepared to pass a decidedly... unconventional afternoon?'
    The two girls were now equally red and they were none the less charming for that.
    'We are prepared for anything!' said Evelyn.
    'Is that correct, Nora?'
    'Quite correct!' said Nora after a moment's hesitation.
    'And the more... "unconventional" the better,' said Evelyn, hiding her face behind one of the little fans which I had just handed to her.
    'That's right,' said I. 'Now we must come to certain arrangements. Nora, like you, must call me "Uncle Jack": You are my two nieces, do you understand?'
    'Oh, yes, yes!'
    'And next, you must not be surprised at anything, but must have complete confidence in me. I can promise you one thing; that you will come through all the experiences that we are about to encounter as intact, physically I mean, as you are at the present moment. You understand what I mean?'
    Both of them seemed to tremble a little, but after a quick glance at each other Evelyn answered, 'Yes, we understand, and that's just what we should have wished.'
    'Capital!'
    'There's only one thing that concerns us,' said Nora, who was becoming more and more at her ease with me; 'and that is to know more than the girls of the Lesbian Society, and to be able to... to... what do the French say? a word...'
    'To epater them?' I asked.
    'Yes, that's it! To epater them!'
    "Very well, my dear nieces! I will guarantee that you shall be able fairly to epater them if you relate faithfully to them all that you are going to see and learn this afternoon. And now we ought to be on the move.'
    I settled the bill and sending for a taxi, very pleased with ourselves, we set off for the rue Ch—.

Chapter Three - The Devil in Hell
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    As had been arranged we were received by Madame R, who showed us into her private sitting-room. There was nothing to give a hint to my 'nieces' as to the occupation of the lady of the house, and accordingly they were very curious as to who and what she might be. Madame R having left us alone for a few moments to attend to the details of the arrangements, Evelyn and Nora began eagerly to question me.
    'Where are we? Who is the lady? Dear Uncle Jack, do tell us; oh, please do!'
    The champagne assisting, they became so pressing that I felt my own feelings beginning to rise. The contact with this young and charming pair, the idea of their absolute virginity in which wholly unknown sensations were so soon to be aroused, their eager and warm looks, the pressure of their hot and soft little hands, all this seemed to endow me with all my youthful vigour, and I felt standing up inside my trousers the delicate and sensitive instrument of flesh by which man measures in himself the degree of his sensual pleasure, as hard and stiff as it would have been had I knocked off fifteen of my thirty-five years.
    'My dear children,' said I, 'restrain yourselves. I am here only to instruct and, I hope, amuse you. The house belongs to a lady friend of mine. She is the manageress of a temple to which one can come to adore, in return for a liberal remuneration, the Goddess of Pleasure!'
    'Oh, Uncle Jack, how you do tease!' said Evelyn with a delightful little pout. 'Do put things more plainly!'
    "Very