CHAPTER XVII.
HOW TITA SUGGESTS A GAME OF BLIND MAN'S BUFF, AND WHAT COMES OF IT.
"Well, I hardly can," says Tita, struggling with her memory.

"He seems a big man, with--_airs_, you know, and--and----" "Trousers!" puts in Mr.Gower.

"I assure you," looking confidently around him, "the checks on his trousers are so loud, that one can hear him _rattle_ as he walks." "Oh! is that the Mr.Warbeck ?" says Minnie.

"I know; I met him in town last July." "You met a hero of romance, then," says Gower.

"That is, a thing out of the common." "I know him too," says Mrs.Chichester, who has been thinking.