"Who is the lady who has just left you?" asked the Earl as he greeted his cousin; and he glanced over his shoulder at the white domino disappearing in the throng.
Susannah found in this her cue.
"Miss Boyle," she said. "And it is about her that I wish to speak to you."
Lord Lyndwood stepped into the alcove; Marius had departed; they, although on the edge of a great crowd, enveloped by music and laughter, were alone and unnoticed.
"Did you not guess the subject on which I desired to see you?" questioned Susannah.
The Earl looked at her smilingly, and flung himself into a chair.
"Gad, but I'm tired," he said. "Well, I suppose you have seen the paragraph in the Gazette?"
Miss Chressham gave him a keen glance from behind her mask.
"Yes," she answered. "And Miss Boyle has seen it."
The faintest tinge of colour came into my lord's weary face.