After that it will depend." "On what ?" "On whom I shall see in the supper-room at one o'clock precisely." "You will see the Scarlet Pimpernel, of course.

But you do not know him." "No.

But I shall presently." "Sir Andrew will have warned him." "I think not.

When you parted from him after the minuet he stood and watched you, for a moment or two, with a look which gave me to understand that something had happened between you.

It was only natural, was it not?
that I should make a shrewd guess as to the nature of that 'something.' I thereupon engaged the young man in a long and animated conversation--we discussed Herr Gluck's singular success in London--until a lady claimed his arm for supper." "Since then ?" "I did not lose sight of him through supper.