“Yes.”
“Horrid old man, isn’t he?”
“I know him very slightly.”
“And the man—who’s he?”
“Mr. Calder Wentworth.”
“To be sure. Why, they’re engaged, aren’t they? I saw it in the paper.”
“I’m sure I don’t know,” said Mr. Taylor, in a voice more troubled than the matter seemed to require. “I saw it in the paper too.”
“He’s no beauty, at any rate; but he’s a great match, I suppose?”
“Oh, perhaps it isn’t true.”
“You speak as if you wished it wasn’t. I’ve heard about Mr. Wentworth from Victor Sutton—you know who I mean?” and Mrs. Marland proceeded to give some particulars of Calder Wentworth’s career.