[The Danger Mark by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Danger Mark CHAPTER XXI 10/18
"Bunny and Sylvia? I knew he was attentive to her but----" "You mean Dysart ?" he said carelessly.
"Oh, he's only a confirmed debutante chaser; a sort of social measles.
They all recover rapidly." "I had the--social measles," said Geraldine, smiling. Duane repressed a shiver.
"It's inevitable," he said gaily....
"That Bunny is a decent fellow." "Will you show me his letter ?" she asked, extending her hand as a matter of course. "No, dear." She looked up surprised. "Why not? Oh--I beg your pardon, dear----" Duane bent over, kissed her hand, and tossed the letter into the fire. It was her first experience in shadows cast before, and it came to her with a little shock that no two are ever one in the prosier sense of the theory. The letter that Duane had read was this: "Sylvia and I were married quietly yesterday and she has told me that you will know why.
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