"To YOU." He had a strange faint smile.

"Well, as I don't speak of it--!" "No--only to me.

What is it he settles ?" Mrs.Brook demanded.
"I can't tell you." "You didn't ask ?" "On the contrary I stopped him off." "Oh then," Mrs.Brook exclaimed, "that's what I call declining." The words appeared for an instant to strike her companion.

"Is it?
Is it ?" he almost musingly repeated.

But he shook himself the next moment free of his wonder, was more what would have been called in Buckingham Crescent on the spot.