"But," said Leavesley after an interval of sweet silence, "what I can't make out is how Bridgewater found out about you and me."

"Bridgewater!"

"Yes; he told my aunt all about us, and our going to Epping Forest: only the old fool said we went to the Zoo."

Fanny was silent. Then she said in a perplexed voice: "I want to tell you something. I did go to the Zoo."

"When?"

"The other day."

"Who with?"

"Guess!"

"Not—not Bevan?"