She was a schoolfellow of mine--Elma Heath." "Heath!" I echoed.

"Where was she at school with you ?" "At Chichester." "Long ago ?" "A little over two years." "She's very beautiful!" I declared, taking up the photograph and discovering that it bore the name of the same well-known photographer in New Bond Street as that I had found on the carpet of the _Lola_ in the Mediterranean.
"Yes.

She's really prettier than her photograph.

It hardly does her justice." "And where is she now ?" "Why are you so very inquisitive, Mr.Gregg ?" laughed the handsome girl.
"Have you actually fallen in love with her from her picture ?" "I'm hardly given to that kind of thing, Miss Leithcourt," I answered with mock severity.

"I don't think even my worst enemy could call me a flirt, could she ?" "No.