I hope you haven't
been saying anything indiscreet, Miss D'Alloi?"
"I'm afraid I have," laughed Leonore, triumphantly, adding, "but I won't
tell anything more."
Pell looked after them as they went towards the carriage. "How
extraordinary!" he said. "She couldn't have it from Peter. He tells
nothing. Where the deuce did she get it, and is it so?" Then he said:
"Senator Van Brunt Pell," with a roll on all the r's. "That sounds well.
I wonder if there's anything in it?"
"I think," said Leonore to Peter, triumphantly "that he would like to
have talked politics. But he'll get nothing but torture from me if he
tries."
It began to dawn on Peter that Leonore did not, despite her frank
manner, mean all she said. He turned to her, and asked:
"Are you really in earnest in saying that you'll refuse every man who
asks you to marry him within five years?"
Leonore's triumph scattered to the four winds. "What an awfully impudent
question," she thought, "after my saying it so often.
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