"But, my dear young lady, that's impossible. Lieutenant Kingsland is already married."
"Yes, he's married to me."
"To you? What? How can he be?"
"Because you married him to me two days ago.
"Nothing of the sort," cried the old man in irritated bewilderment. "I married him to Miss Fitzgerald."
"You married him to me, Mr. Lambert."
"But I ought to know best whom I married, and to whom, Lady Isabelle."
"You ought certainly; but, in this case, it seems you do not."
"But Miss Fitzgerald said——"
"Ah, that's just the point. What did Miss Fitzgerald say?"