They asked us both, you may remember, but for reasons best known to yourself, you would not go." "You know my reasons very well, Honoria." "I beg your pardon.

I have not the slightest idea what they were," said Lady Honoria with conviction.

"May I hear them ?" "Well, if you wish to know, I will not go to the house of a man who has--well, left my club as Garsington left it, and who, had it not been for my efforts, would have left it in an even more unpleasant and conspicuous fashion.

And his wife is worse than he is----" "I think you are mistaken," Lady Honoria said coldly, and with the air of a person who shuts the door of a room into which she does not wish to look.

"And, any way, it all happened years ago and has blown over.