They won't talk of anything worse than you and me." "Well, we're bad enough perhaps, thank heaven," she laughed, "to upset them! Mr.Waymarsh at any rate is a hideous old coquette." And the next moment she had dropped everything for a different pursuit.

"What you don't appear to know is that Jeanne de Vionnet has become engaged.
She's to marry--it has been definitely arranged--young Monsieur de Montbron." He fairly blushed.

"Then--if you know it--it's 'out' ?" "Don't I often know things that are NOT out?
However," she said, "this will be out to-morrow.

But I see I've counted too much on your possible ignorance.

You've been before me, and I don't make you jump as I hoped." He gave a gasp at her insight.