"Really? I was not told. Perhaps it was forgotten. It was very good of you to take so much trouble. Every one has been singularly kind and just, when I was fancying myself so cruelly alone, too."
"Never alone so long as you will consider me your friend."
"That is two I have now."
"Two? Who is the other?"
"Jessica."
"Oh!"
A shadow of disappointment crossed his brow, a disappointment which he made no attempt to conceal.
She laughed nervously.
"Jessica tells me that I have been such a fool," she said, in a tone that was quite new to her.
"Indeed? How?"