We--we intended to be still more to one another, Louise, but something occurred, I don't know what, to--to separate us." "Why, you went away," said the girl, laughing; "and that of course separated us." "You treated me like a beggar; don't forget that part of it, dear.

Of course I went away." "And consoled yourself with a certain Miss Diana Von Taer.

It has lately been rumored you are engaged to her." "Me?
What nonsense ?" But he hushed guiltily, and Louise noted everything and determined he should not escape punishment.
"Diana, at least, is in earnest," she remarked, with assumed indifference.

"You may not care to deny that you have been very attentive to her." "Not especially so," he declared, stoutly.
"People gossip, you know.

And Diana is charming." "She's an iceberg!" "Oh, you have discovered that?
Was she wholly unresponsive, then ?" "No," he said, with a touch of anger.