Barnes paused again, his face expressing a still more complete astonishment.
"You say that?" he said. "You!"
"And why not?"
"But—but you are so young!" he said, evidently finding a difficulty in putting his impressions. "I beg your pardon—I ought not to talk about it at all. But it was so odd that——"
"That I knew anything about Mrs. Verrier's affairs?" said Miss Floyd, with a rather uncomfortable laugh. "Well, you see, American girls are not like English ones. We don't pretend not to know what everybody knows."
"Of course," said Roger hurriedly; "but you wouldn't think it a fair and square thing to do?"
"Think what?"
"Why, to marry a man, and then talk of divorcing him because people didn't invite you to their parties."
"She was very unhappy," said Daphne stubbornly.
"Well, by Jove!" cried the young man, "she doesn't look very happy now!"