He was carried away, and what he might have said of that night's happening would have redounded neither to St.Vincent's credit nor to his own, had not Frona innocently put a seal upon his lips ere he had properly begun.
"Yes," she said.

"Mr.St.Vincent told me about it.

He met you for the first time that night, I believe.

You all fought royally on his side,--you and Colonel Trethaway.

He spoke his admiration unreservedly and, to tell the truth, with enthusiasm." Corliss made a gesture of depreciation.
"No! no! From what he said you must have behaved splendidly.