No one did it," said the girl, magnanimously.

She looked down sidelong at her draperies.

"I was so afraid I had torn my dress! I certainly heard something rip." It was one of the skirts of Burnamy's coat, which he had caught into his hand and held in place till he could escape to the men's dressing-room, where he had it pinned up so skillfully that the damage was not suspected by the ladies.

He had banged his knee abominably too; but they did not suspect that either, as he limped home on the air beside them, first to Miss Triscoe's pension, and then to Mrs.March's hotel.
It was quite eleven o'clock, which at Carlsbad is as late as three in the morning anywhere else, when she let herself into her room.

She decided not to tell her husband, then; and even at breakfast, which they had at the Posthof, she had not got to her confession, though she had told him everything else about the ball, when the young officer with whom she had danced passed between the tables near her.