And then came this elopement, this incongruous phenomenon of self-assertion, the greatest wonder of all, astonishing and amusing.
Davidson admitted to me that, the hubbub was subsiding; and the affair would have been already forgotten, perhaps, if that ass Schomberg had not kept on gnashing his teeth publicly about it.

It was really provoking that Davidson should not be able to give one some idea of the girl.

Was she pretty?
He didn't know.

He had stayed the whole afternoon in Schomberg's hotel, mainly for the purpose of finding out something about her.

But the story was growing stale.