'Why, we knew that at once.' 'Yes,' said Marion, 'there was an article on him in last month's _Gleaner_.

Surely you read the _Gleaner_, Mr.Conneally ?' Hyacinth felt Marion's eyes fixed on him with something of a reproach in them.

He wrestled with a vague recollection of having somewhere heard the name of the periodical.

For a moment he thought of risking cross-questioning, and saying that he had only missed the last number.
Then he suddenly remembered the card with silver lettering which hung above his coat in the hall, and told the truth with even a quite unnecessary aggravation.
'No, I never remember seeing a copy of it in my life.

I don't even know what it is about.' 'Oh!' said the girls, round-eyed with horror.