He scarcely knew why a thought flashed into his mind--as though by some telepathic sense; for it had never been there before, and there was no reason for its being there now.
Hylda saw what David was about to answer, and she knew instinctively that he would say they had never met.

It shamed her.

She intervened as she saw he was about to speak.
"We were introduced for the first time to-night," she said; "but Claridge Pasha is part of my education in the world.

It is a miracle that Hamley should produce two such men," she added gaily, and laid her fan upon her husband's arm lightly.

"You should have been a Quaker, Harry, and then you two would have been--" "Two Quaker Don Quixotes," interrupted Eglington ironically.
"I should not have called you a Don Quixote," his wife lightly rejoined, relieved at the turn things had taken.