"Hours! We weren't five seconds behind that screen."
"I am not thinking of the screen now; I am thinking of yesterday morning, when you went out riding with him."
"What! you have not forgotten that yet?" exclaims she, with high scorn. "Why, I thought you had forgiven, and put all that behind you."
"I have not forgotten it. I might have considered it wiser to say nothing more about it, had not your conduct of this evening——"
"Nonsense!" She interrupts him with a saucy little shrug of her shoulders. "And as for hours—it wasn't hours, any way."
"You went out with him at eight o'clock——"
"Who told you that?"
"Your maid."
"You asked Sarah?"
"Certainly I did. I had to do something before I asked my guests to sit down to breakfast without their hostess!"