In connection with Van Torp, may I ask an indiscreet question ?' 'No question you can ask me about him can be indiscreet.

What is it ?' 'Is it true that he once asked you to marry him and you refused him ?' Margaret turned her pale face to Logotheti with a look of genuine surprise.
'Yes.

It's true.

But I never told any one.

How in the world did you hear it ?' 'And he quite lost his head, I heard, and behaved like a madman--' 'Who told you that ?' asked Margaret, more and more astonished, and not at all pleased.
'He behaved so strangely that you ran into the next room and bolted the door, and waited till he went away--' 'Have you been paying a detective to watch me ?' There was anger in her eyes for a moment, but she saw at once that she was mistaken.
'No,' Logotheti answered with a smile, 'why should I?
If a detective told me anything against you I should not believe it, and no one could tell me half the good I believe about you!' 'You're really awfully nice,' laughed Margaret, for she could not help being flattered.