"Do you see what I've got here?"
He made an upward movement with his hand. For the first time she noticed that in his buttonhole he had a tiny copy of the Union Jack.
"Did you buy that of the man outside the town gate?"
He nodded.
"Why, it was of that very same man that I bought this."
From the inside of her blouse she produced that minute representation of the colours he knew so well. They looked at each other, and....
When some time after they were lunching, he forming a fourth at the small table which belonged of right to Mr. and Mrs. Palmer, he said to Annie Moriarty, that was:--
"Since you're an old friend of Miss Donne you may be interested in knowing that there's likely soon to be an International Alliance."
He motioned to the lady at his side and then to himself, as if to call attention to the fact that in his buttonhole was the Union Jack, while on Miss Donne's blouse was pinned the American flag. But keen-witted Mrs. Palmer had realized what exactly was the condition of affairs some time before.