"I hope it was concluded to her satisfaction."
"It has not been decided yet," Vane replies, with no little embarrassment.
"I may not venture to inquire into its nature?" Mr. Langton asks, curiously.
"No, I think not—at least, not just yet. Later on you shall hear, perhaps," Vane responds, ambiguously, and with very palpable confusion.
They have some desultory conversation, then Mr. Langton asks, casually:
"Well, and have you enjoyed your 'outing?'"
"Recklessly," responds he.
"I don't think I quite enter into your meaning," the old millionaire retorts; and Vane, laughing carelessly, replies:
"I mean I have enjoyed it down to the ground, as the fellows say here."
"Humph! looks as if you had been dissipating straight through," Mr. Langton comments, glaring keenly at him under his shaggy brows. "You don't ask me anything about that wretched girl," he says, startlingly.