"However, poor child, no doubt, after having been two years engaged to that very disappointing hero of Saspataras Hill, she will be shy of venturing to trust anyone again." "Do you think that affair ever went very deep ?" I ventured to ask.

"It seemed to me that she looked miserable during her engagement, and happy when it was broken off." "Quite so," said Lady Probyn; "I noticed the same thing.

It was nothing but a mistake.

They were not in the least suited to each other.
By-the-by, I hear that Derrick Vaughan is married." "Derrick ?" I exclaimed; "oh, no, that is a mistake.

It is merely one of the hundred and one reports that are for ever being set afloat about him." "But I saw it in a paper, I assure you," said Lady Probyn, by no means convinced.
"Ah, that may very well be; they were hard up for a paragraph, no doubt, and inserted it.