"Can't you guess who?"

"No!" said he. "What do you mean?"

"I must tell you, because they know nothing, and needn't know, of all this matter."

"What are you talking about?"

"Marion is there!"

"Marion!" exclaimed Mr. Rossitur, with quick changes of expression "Marion! At Queechy! and her husband?"

"No, Sir a dear little child."

"Marion! and her husband where is he?"

Fleda hesitated.

"I don't know I don't know whether she knows."