"But fancy! I heard a clergyman in this city baptize an unoffending infant Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego."
"Did he throw in the 'and'?" laughed Tremaine.
"Oh, no. Did I give it?"
"Yes. Well, I just call my boy plain Paddy."
"Do you throw in the 'plain'?"
"Oh, come, now; you ladies are having the best of it all through to-day," he said, making his adieux.
"At the polls too?" she said gaily.
Several callers now came in in rapid succession, Mr. Cobbe rising as the last made their exit.
"Think of me, Elaine. I shall come in and cheer you up when I get through," he said, in a loud whisper, as she was having a last quiet word with Buckingham.
Here Mr. Blair entered, and both men thought they saw a something in her smile that had not been given them.