What you have told me I have known this long while." "You have known ?" he cried with sinking heart.
"Yes.

We live in a city where gossip travels quickly and thoroughly.
Mrs.Franklyn-Haldene was telling mother one afternoon that you drank.
I suppose she felt it her duty." "To be sure," bitterly.

"Was it while I have been living at home ?" "No; when the rumor came that you were coming." He shrugged expressively.

"I ought to have known." "But come; you are up here to be cheered, not lectured.

Let us play billiards.