96 THE HAUGHTYSHIRE HUNT. 



tunity of whispering to Dennison, as he phickecl him rather 

 nervously by the sleeve — 



"I say, you know, you needn't mention anything about 

 — about that lady, you know — the one I introduced you to at 

 Aldridge's the other day, you know. She's — er — well, she's 

 not — not quite " 



Eonald Dennison smiled at Travers's hesitancy. 



" No," he said. " She was not quite. I saw that." 



" Oh, really ! " squeaked Travers, and then the}' entered the 

 sanctum of the fairer part of creation, and the conversation 

 dropped. 



