You may possibly have heard that my uncle, Sir Horace, has married again.

I think you must have done so, for the papers were full of it at the time.

But I forget"-- quizzically--"you don't read newspapers, do you, even when they contain accounts of your own greatness." "I wonder if I deserve that?
At any rate, I got it," said Cleek with a laugh.

"Yes, I heard all about Sir Horace's wedding.

Some four or five months ago, wasn't it ?" "No, three--three, last Thursday, the fourteenth.