So, as with Nanda, on HER side, there's no more absorbing interest than her dear friend Tishy, with whom she's at present staying and under whose roof she perpetually meets this victim of unjust aspersions--!" "I see the whole thing from here, you imply ?" Mr.Mitchett, under the influence of this rapid evocation, had already taken his line.

"Well," he said bravely, "Nanda's not a fool." A momentary silence on the part of the Duchess might have been her tribute to his courage.

"No.

I don't agree with her, as it happens, here; but that there are matters as to which she's not in general at all befogged is exactly the worst I ever said of her.

And I hold that in putting it so--on the basis of my little anecdote--you clearly give out that you're answered." Mitchy turned it over.