24/88 "I assure you she hasn't told me anything." "Of course she hasn't. For what do you suggest that I suppose her to take you? You know what she has been through as well as you know that she has dined here to-night--which must have put her, by the way, through a good deal more." The young man faced this blast; after which he pulled round the rest of the way. "I haven't in the least said she hasn't been nice to me. But she's proud." "And quite properly. |