"There is nothing the matter, you big baby.

Only I heard something I thought you would care to know, and which I thought you should know at once, so I came to tell you." "Yes, tell me." "It was this way, you see." All this impetuously.

"I was at Mrs.
Carlson's party, and among the guests were Mr.Gordon and Mr.Mason, with their wives.

I didn't listen intentionally, of course, but Mr.
Mason and Mr.Gordon came close to where I was sitting and I heard your name mentioned, and I suppose that made my hearing suddenly acute, and I heard in two sentences enough to know that those two gentlemen are working together against you in something political.

So, sir, knowing your foolish interest in such things, and actuated by my foolish interest in you, I told aunt I'd like to go home early, and a cab was called and I was put into it, and I told the driver to come here, and--you know the rest, you staring personage." Women can read men's faces, and Jean Cornish must have been repaid for what she had done by the mere look of the man before her.