I wonder, by the way, if they are going to have Mrs.
Stribling ?" "Rose Stribling ?" A gleam of anger shone in Corinna's eyes.

"Why should that interest you ?" "Oh, they say--at least Mrs.Berkeley says, and if there is any misinformation abroad she ought to be aware of it--that Mrs.Stribling's latest attachment to her train is the Governor himself." He had expected his gossip to arouse Corinna, and in this he was not mistaken.

Springing up from her relaxed position, she sat straight and unbending, with her indignant eyes on his face.

"Why, I thought the war had cured her." "The war was not a cure; it was merely a temporary drug for our vanity," he rejoined gaily.

"It didn't cure me, so you could hardly regard it as a remedy for Mrs.Stribling's complaint.