“Yes; there is an invitation just come for me to go to Miss Jerrold’s to-morrow night and take you.”
“Indeed!” said Guest eagerly.
“She says in a postscript that the ladies will be there.”
“Well?” said Guest uneasily, and beginning to smoke very hard.
“Don’t you understand?”
“Eh? No.”
“Then I must speak plainly, old fellow. For a year before they went out to Switzerland we were there a great deal, and met them after.”
Guest nodded and his pipe did not seem to draw.
“We have met them often during these three months that they have been back.”
Guest laughed and struck a match. His pipe was out.