"I believe you knew the Trefoils in Washington ?" she said.

Morton acknowledged that he had seen much of them there.

"She is very handsome, certainly." "I think so." "And rides well I suppose." "I don't know.

I never heard much of her riding." "Has she been staying long at Bragton ?" "Just a week." "Do you know Lord Augustus ?" Morton said that he did not know Lord Augustus and then answered sundry other questions of the same nature in the same uncommunicative way.

Though he had once or twice almost fancied that he would like to proclaim aloud that the girl was engaged to him, yet he did not like to have the fact pumped out of him.