He is unspeakable." As he looked into her eyes a deep anxiety or disturbance appeared beneath the superficial gaiety of his smile.

"The fellow had evidently had a quarrel, perhaps a permanent break, with Vetch.

He was in a kind of cold rage; and do you know what he said to me?
He told me,--not openly, but in pretended secrecy,--that Vetch had never married Patty's mother--" For an instant Corinna gazed at him in silence.

Then her words came in a gasp of indignation.

"Of course there isn't a word of truth in it!" "So I said to him.