Paul readily accepted his invitation, not knowing that Scoris would be there. Leaving Paul at the hotel upon arriving the Prince hurried to the friend’s apartments where Scoris was visiting.
“Why, Charley!” Scoris exclaimed, laughing, “did you come all this distance just to meet me?”
“Yes, I did, sister-in-law,” he answered, using his pet name for her. Then aside he told her that he must have a talk with her alone as soon as it could be managed. She was rather startled at first, fearing that something must have happened at home.
“Everything is all right,” he assured her. “It is about yourself I wish to talk. Is it true that you are going to be married?”
She laughed heartily. It seemed so absurd for him to have come all that distance to ask her that.
“Why, Charley, what gave you such an idea?”
“It has been in all the papers,” he answered.
“In the papers!” she exclaimed; “before I had even told my own family! How strange!”
“Then it is true?” the Prince said as a matter of course.
“I hope so,” she answers teasingly.