It was a bolt from the blue.

"And when I telephoned to the old boy this morning," he said, "and asked him to take me to call upon his damsel to-day, he told me she had gone to Paris and would not be back until a week before the wedding!" "How very mysterious!" piped Laura.

"Tristram is off to Paris, too, then, I suppose ?" "He did not say; he seemed in the deuce of a hurry and put the receiver down." "He is probably only doing it for money, poor darling boy!" she said sympathetically.

"It was quite necessary for him." "Oh, that's not Tristram's measure," Sir James Danvers interrupted.
"He'd never do anything for money.

I thought you knew him awfully well," he added, surprised.