"I saw it in the papers. A Miss Granger, isn't it?"
"A Miss Granger!" thought Dick. Everybody knew the Grangers.
"I'm sure I congratulate you. You lost no time, Mr. Derosne."
Dick stammered that it was an old acquaintance renewed.
"Oh, then you've been in love with her a long while?" asked Daisy, with a curiosity apparently very innocent.
"Not exactly that."
"Then you did fall in love very quickly?"
"Well, I suppose I did," admitted Dick, as if he were rather ashamed of himself.
"Oh, I mustn't blame you," said Daisy, with a pensive sigh.
Dick, on the look-out for a hint of suppressed suffering, saw what he looked for. She was taking it very well, and it was his duty to say something nice. Moreover, Daisy Medland was looking extremely pretty, and that fact alone, in Dick's view, justified and indeed necessitated the saying of