"Oh, I don't know anything about that; but I know it's true, for Maude said so." In the increasing confusion of talk in the house, the voices were suddenly raised, and Rose caught every word.
"I 'll ask Sam--" began the other, dropping her opera glass and stooping to pick it up.
"If you do, Minna Grayson, I 'll never speak to you again."
"Oh, I forgot--" laughed the other. "Tell us some more, it's awfully exciting."
"I won't either," said the other, in a huffy tone. Evidently, they were school-girls in for the matinée.
"Oh, do; what did Maude say?"
"She said, 'No,'" chuckled the other triumphantly.
"But think of his money!'
"She said she did n't mind; she 's got money enough of her own, anyway, if she does skimp me on allowance ever since grandmamma died."
"I heard Sara say last Christmas when I was home for vacation, that he was perfectly devoted to that new girl the Clydes have taken up."