“I suppose the Marquise told him of it.”
“I am interested. Is she pretty? Who, and what is her father? Did she lose her lover through the mistake?”
“You are more interested in this American girl, than in me. I think you might ask a little concerning my love affair with Captain Seabright.”
“I always ask you about Mr. Van Ariens. A girl cannot have two lovers,”
“But if one is gone away?”
“Then he has gone away; and that is the end of him. He must not trouble the one who has come to stay, eh, Mary?”
“You are right, Annie. But one’s first lover has always a charm above reason; and Willie Seabright was once very dear to me.”
“I am sorry for that unfortunate American girl.”
“So am I. She is a great beauty. Her name is Cornelia Moran; and her father is a famous physician in New York.”
“And this beauty had two lovers?”