"Look at Xenie," she said with a spice of malicious triumph in her tone. "That is Lord Dudley with whom she is waltzing. She has quite captivated him. Doubtless it will be a match."
His eyes followed the flying form a moment steadily, then he answered calmly:
"They are a handsome pair, certainly, Mrs. Egerton. I am acquainted with Lord Dudley."
"You met him abroad, I suppose?"
"No, we came over from England in the same——"
But at that moment someone came hastily up and claimed his attention.
Then a little excited group formed around him, and even the waltzers began to see that an unusual interest was agitating the wall-flowers.
Xenie looked carelessly at first, then more closely as she saw that her aunt stood in the center of the group.
"Aunt Egerton has suddenly become the center of attraction," she said, laughingly, to her companion.