I informed her she was gone out.
"Then," exclaimed Virginie, "it must have been Rose that I met in the next street, walking with a gentleman.

I thought the dress and figure were hers, but I could not see her face for a thick veil.
The gentleman was tall and dark, and very handsome." Half an hour later, Rose came back.

We teased her a little about the gentleman; but she put it off quite indifferently, saying he was an acquaintance she had encountered in the street, and that she had promised to go with him next morning to call on a lady-friend of hers, a Mrs.Major Forsyth.

We thought no more about it; and next morning, when the gentleman called in a carriage, Rose was quite ready, and went away with him.

It was then about eleven o'clock, and she did not return until five in the afternoon.