He didn't want the girl to know he was coming to Paris, because, it seems, there had been a little talk about him and me, which she had heard.

And she didn't like it." "I see.

This gentleman started for Paris, I have learned, the first thing in the morning, the day after a ball at a house where he met the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs." "Perhaps.

For I have enquired and found out that the girl--a Miss Forrest, is distantly connected with the British Foreign Secretary.

She lives with her aunt, Lady Mountstuart, whose sister is married to that gentleman.