"
"Did it interest you?"
"Deeply."
"Well, then, it could not be dress, or men, or Western romance, or
society in Boston, or the beautiful weather. I guess it was books."
"Wrong; they were never mentioned."
"Then I shall have to give up, for I do not remember any other subjects
she talks about."
"Yet it was the most natural topic imaginable--yourself."
"You were discussing me? Why, how did that happen?"
"Very simply, and I was wholly to blame. To be perfectly honest, Miss
Naida, I attended the dance to-night for no other object than to meet
you again. But I had argued myself into the belief that you were Miss
Spencer. The discovery of my mistake merely intensified my
determination to learn who you really were. With this purpose, I
interviewed Miss Spencer, and during the course of our conversation the
facts of my first meeting with you became known."
"You told her how very foolish I acted?"
"I told her how deeply interested I had become in your outspoken
manner."
"Oh! And she exclaimed, 'How romantic!'"
"Possibly; she likewise took occasion to suggest that you were merely a
child, and seemed astonished that I should have given you a second
thought.
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