"Please explain yourself."
"Won't you please read that part again where she mentions the people invited for the cruise."
Mrs. Champney found the paragraph and re-read it aloud.
"Falkenburg—that's the name—Ben Falkenburg."
"How did you ever hear of this Ben Falkenburg?"
"Oh, I heard of him years ago!" The mischief was in her voice and Mrs. Champney recognized it.
"Where?"
"When I was in New York—in the asylum; he's the one that danced the minuet with the Marchioness; I told you about it years ago."
"How do you know he was the boy?"
"Because Alice told me his name then, and showed me the valentine and May-basket he sent her—just read the postscript again; if you want to crack a letter for its kernel, you'll generally find it in a postscript, that is with girls of Alice's age."