“I suppose you have heard of what they call the double event?” said Lady Clanmorne.
“No.”
“Well, it is quite true; Mr. Bohun told me last night, and he always knows every thing.”
“Every thing!” said Lady St. Jerome; “but what is it that he knows now?”
“Both the Ladies Falkirk are to be married! And on the same day.”
“But to whom?”
“Whom should you think?”
“I will not even guess,” said Lady St. Jerome.
“Clare,” she said to Miss Arundel, who was engaged apart, “you always find out conundrums. Lady Clanmorne has got some news for us. Lady Flora Falkirk and her sister are going to be married, and on the same day. And to whom, think you?”
“Well, I should think that somebody has made Lord Carisbrooke a happy man,” said Miss Arundel.