"You never fail! I've HAD my jump.

I had it when I first heard." "Then if you knew why didn't you tell me as soon as you came in ?" "Because I had it from her as a thing not yet to be spoken of." Miss Gostrey wondered.

"From Madame de Vionnet herself ?" "As a probability--not quite a certainty: a good cause in which Chad has been working.

So I've waited." "You need wait no longer," she returned.

"It reached me yesterday--roundabout and accidental, but by a person who had had it from one of the young man's own people--as a thing quite settled.