"All of us, after meeting you!" declared Rafael, with an exaggerated bow.
"Sure!" agreed Don Ricardo.
"My husband, you know, is an engineer, and goes on long journeys into queer corners of the mining world."
"Bad habit for husbands with pretty wives," remarked Don Antonio.
"Last Winter," continued she, slowly sipping her coffee and watching Bryton; "last Winter he went to Mexico."
"Pardon! We do not ask for the love affairs of your lucky husband, but—"
"But last Winter Don Keith went along; yes—he went along to look up some mining property in the Indian hills, and when he came back—Have any of you noticed the peculiar ring Mr. Bryton wears?"
"Angela!" said Keith, sharply; but she looked at him with smiling insolence.
"Oh, I know your little romance of Doña Espiritu; Teddy told me."
"Damn Teddy!" he remarked, while the rest shouted with laughter at the color flaming in his face.