"She's dropped Jack Dysart's name already in private correspondence....

Poor child!" Looking up at Kathleen, "We must ask her, mustn't we, dear ?" There was more of virginal severity in Kathleen.

She did not see why Rosalie, under the circumstances, should make a convenience of Geraldine, but she did not say so; and, perhaps, glancing at the wistful young girl before her, she understood this new toleration for those in dubious circumstances--comprehended the unusual gentleness of judgment which often softens the verdict of those who themselves have drifted too near the danger mark ever to forget it or to condemn those still adrift.
"Yes," she said, "ask her." Duane looked up from the perusal of his own letter as Kathleen and Scott strolled off toward the greenhouses where the latter's daily entomological researches continued under glass and the stimulous artificial heat and Kathleen Severn.
"Geraldine," he said, "here's a letter from Bunny Gray.

He and Sylvia Quest were married yesterday very quietly, and they sailed for Cape Town this morning!" "What!" "That's what he writes.

Did you ever hear of anything quicker ?" "How funny," she said.