"How exciting!" murmured one.
"Is he married, Grace?"
Fifteen pairs of eyes pasted themselves on Gracie's. She barely caught herself on the verge of confessing ignorance. She was dazed by the new aspect of her own love-affair.
These girls envied her!
"No!" she said, recklessly.
"It's her father," prompted a slim young Sherlock Holmes.
"No; Mrs. Goodchild!" corrected a greater genius.
"Maybe it's Grace herself," suggested the envious Milly Walton.
"How can I stop it?" asked Grace, angrily.
"What?" shrieked all.