"How do you know?"
"It was in the papers, and—and—" hesitatingly, "I called on him."
"Why?"
"To see if he would cease his attentions to Madge, and to tell him that she was engaged to me."
"And what did he say?"
"Laughed at me. Curse him."
"You had high words, evidently?"
Brian laughed bitterly.
"Yes, we had."
"Did anyone hear you?"