"Jimmy," she cried, "it is really quite impossible."
"Why?" he demanded.
"My dear, I scarcely like to say the words, but she knew Mark Driver long before she knew you."
"Well, I hope she will see a good deal of old Mark in the future also," answered Jimmy. "You force me to break my word," said Sybil, with considerable emotion. "Carrissima will never forgive me. I am sure she won't. But I really cannot keep silence while you go to destruction. I really can't. I promised I would never breathe a syllable——"
"Would you mind," urged Jimmy, "breathing it quickly!"
"There has been an—an understanding between Miss Rosser and Mark from the very first," said Sybil.
"Oh, you mustn't talk foolishness," returned Jimmy.
"Carrissima saw them——"
"What in the world did she see?"
"She happened to go to Golfney Place unexpectedly the afternoon before Miss Rosser left," Sybil explained. "She saw the girl in—in Mark's arms. Jimmy, he was kissing her; actually kissing her, and all the time she must have been engaged to Colonel Faversham."