By-the-bye, what were _you_ doing at Dudley ?" "Had to go over with a girl." "Rather a pretty girl, too.

Old acquaintance ?" "Someone I got to know in London.

No, no, not at all what you suppose." "Well, I know you wouldn't talk about it.

It isn't my way, either, to say much about such things.

But I half-promised, not long ago, to let you know of something that was going on--if it came to anything.