"Did you dance every dance?" I asked, working up slowly to what I meant
to say.

"Except a few that I sat out."

"I can guess who sat them out with you," said I. "Ivor Dundas. And one
was number thirteen, wasn't it?"

"How did you know?"

"He told me he was going to have thirteen with you. Oh, you needn't try
to hide anything from me. He tells most things to his 'Imp.' Was he nice
when he proposed?"

"He didn't propose."

"I'll give you the sapphire bracelet Lady Mountstuart gave me, if he
didn't tell you he loved you, and ask if there'd be a chance for him in
case he got Algiers."

"I wouldn't take your bracelet even if--if--. But you're a little
witch, Lisa."

"Of course I am!" I exclaimed, smiling, though I had a sickening wrench
of the heart. "And I suppose you forgot all his faults and failings, and
said he could have you, Algiers or no Algiers."

"I don't believe he has all those faults and failings you were talking
about this evening," said Di, with her cheeks very pink. "He may have