His hand has ceased to wander over the pretty head, and in a low tone he says: "Titania!" This word is meant for Tita alone.

A second later he calls aloud: "Lady Rylton!" But Maurice and Mrs.Bethune, who had been standing just behind him, had heard that whispered first word.
"Oh, you rare right," says Tita petulantly.

"But you would never have known me but for my hair.

And I _hate_ being blindfolded, too.
Maurice, will you take it for me ?" holding out to him the handkerchief.
"No!" says Rylton quietly, but decisively--so decisively that Mrs.
Chichester suddenly hides her face behind her fan.
"What a No!" says she to Captain Marryatt.

"Did you hear it?
What's the matter with him ?" "He's jealous, perhaps," says Captain Marryatt.
Mrs.Chichester gives way to wild, if suppressed, mirth.
"Heavens! Fancy being jealous of one's own wife!" says she.