It may interest you to hear that Ralph Warrender has resigned his seat in Congress and married again." "What ?" said Seton.
"My!" cried Mab, with a shrill laugh.

"That is news, Mr.Merefleet!" Merefleet glanced at her sharply, his attention arrested by something he did not understand.

Seton pushed a glass of sherry towards her, but he was looking at Merefleet.
"News indeed!" he said deliberately.

"Is it actually an accomplished fact ?" "According to the _New York Herald_," said Merefleet.
Mab's face was growing whiter and whiter.

Seton still leant over the table, striving with all his resolution to force Merefleet's attention away from her.