"Why is it," inquired Mabel, "that you have not once been to inquire after me? It was very strange."
"I did inquire after you every day," was the rather embarrassed answer.
"I did not hear of it," said Mabel, easily satisfied, and too happy for repining at anything.
"You may not know," answered her companion, "that I have been making arrangements to go abroad?"
"Abroad? But when—why?"
"Indeed, it seems impossible to give a reason, except that my health seemed to require change."
"Your health?"
"Remember, please, that your first remark was about my looks."
"But you are not really suffering?"
"Not now—not as I have been."