"Is Mr. Marvel a Jew?" I inquired. "Oh! yes, indeed, and a terrible Socialist."
"Ah, I did not know that."
"I heard she was going to marry a Jew," interjected another lady corroboratively, "but I must say it looks very much like Mr. Canter to me."
"Oh! she wouldn't marry a Jew?" suggested Mrs. Arrow. "I heard there was a young lawyer or something."
"She would if she'd a mind to," said our hostess.
"I still stand by Doctor Capon," declared Mrs. Arrow. "He is so refined."
"And I by Jim Canter—I thought at one time it was Count Pushkin; but since Milly McSheen has taken him away, the other seems to be the winning card. I must say I think the count would have been the better match of the two."
"I don't think that," exclaimed the other lady. "And neither would you, if you knew him."
"Possibly, she knows the other," I suggested.
"Oh! no—you see she could get rid of the count, if he proved too objectionable, and then she would still have the title."