"Fanny?"
"Yes, Fanny," said Dick Garden, and then there was a little pause. "Fred, you have known them a long time?"
"I have."
"Good people?"
"The best, the sweetest, the most faithful and devoted. Would to Heaven the world was filled with such!"
"I am with you there. But what I want to ask you is about Miss Lethbridge."
"Fanny? Yes."
"I don't wish you to betray family secrets, old fellow; but she is such a lovely girl—"
"She is."
"With so beautiful a nature that she could not fail to have attracted—you know what I mean, Fred; I am putting it rather lamely."