"What? The boy who's been in the papers so much lately—who disgraced himself, and his people, for a woman?"
Blake nodded, and continued:
"Did you happen to notice the woman who passed a moment ago?—the one carrying the red roses?"
Schuyler bent his head.
"I noticed her," he replied, slowly. "What of her?"
"The woman."
"You don't mean Parmalee—?"
"Yes, I do."
"Because his love was not returned?"
"Because," replied Blake, smiling mirthlessly "it was returned….
Did you ever read that! thing of Kipling's, The Vampire?"