"Did you see your old admirer, Emily?" asked Cloten.
"Who do you mean?"
"Why, Dr. Stein! he was standing right behind us."
"Ah, yes! My old admirer? Are you mad, Arthur?"
"Well, well. You need not be angry. I don't believe a word of the whole story. But, for Heaven's sake! just look! He is speaking to Helen Grenwitz--she gives him a rose. Well, that is too bad! Upon my word, that caps the climax!"
"I told you there was an understanding between them. He beats you all."
"Upon my word! That is too bad! But I have taken care to make the matter known."
"What have you done?"
"Well, I have told everybody what you mentioned to me in secret. The whole ball-room knows it now, ha, ha, ha!"
"But I did not give you leave to do so."