Some old flame, perhaps.

But I couldn't learn any of the particulars." "Ah! That accounts for their singular conduct this morning.

Was there much of a row ?" This came from a thin-visaged young man with eye-glasses and a sparse, whitish moustache.
"I didn't say anything about a row," was the rather sharp reply.

"I only said that I heard that the general had acted strangely, and that there had been some trouble about his wife." "What was the trouble ?" asked two or three anxious voices--anxious for some racy scandal.
"Couldn't learn any of the particulars, only that he took his wife from a gentleman's arm in a rude kind of way, and left the party." "Oh! that accounts for their not coming home in a carriage," broke in one of the listeners.
"Perhaps so.

But who said they didn't ride home ?" "Mr.Craig.