“She’s taking big chances,” said Patsy, “in traveling around with a fellow so well known as he is.”
“She’s taking big chances all the time,” said Alice. “The wonder is that she hasn’t been dropped to. Up to two or three months ago she was traveling around in all sorts of places with a young Englishman. But then he was one of her kind.”
“You mean,” said Merton, “that he moved in her circle of fashionable life.”
“Yes,” said Alice, “and there was a lot of talk about her in her own circle then. I had a friend who was one of the young sports in that circle who told me all about it. This young Englishman had her out on a yacht for a week, and her husband never knew anything about it.”
“Not alone?” asked Merton.
“Oh, no,” said Alice, “there was quite a party.”
“When was this?” asked Patsy.
“Let me see,” said Alice. “I can get pretty close to the time. It was last September.”
“Do you know the name of the young Englishman?”
“No, I’ve forgotten it if I ever heard of it. Anyhow, he was here in New York and used to run over to Philadelphia to see her.”