"Yes. Having ordered it through you, Monsieur Benett, I felt sure that it would, be there at the appointed time."
"You are a sad flatterer, I fear, Monsieur Hogg. But I judged from your letter that there were to be three of you in the party."
"There were three of us, as I told you."
"And the others?"
"They arrived here safe and sound last evening, and are now waiting for me at the Hotel du Nord, where I am soon to join them."
"And these persons are—?"
"Precisely, Monsieur Benett, precisely; but I must beg you to say nothing about it. I don't wish their arrival to be noised abroad yet."
"Poor girl!"
"Yes, she has suffered terribly."
"And you wish her to be present at the drawing, though the ticket her betrothed bequeathed to her is no longer in her possession?"