Miss Danton summoned Ogden from one of the outer rooms, left him in charge, and bore her father off.
"What has happened, my dear ?" the Captain asked.

"There is a whole volume of news in your face." Kate clasped her hands around his arm, and looked up in his face with her great earnest eyes.
"The most wonderful thing, papa! Just like a play or a novel! Who do you think is here ?" "Who?
Not Rose come back, surely ?" "Rose?
Oh, no!" Kate answered, with wonderful quietness.

"You never could guess.

Harry's wife!" "What!" "Papa! Poor Harry was dreadfully mistaken.

She was innocent all the time.