(Married!)

"Oh, you’re flattering me! Because she’s ever so much prettier than I am,
and I know it."

He didn’t reply. It had suddenly come over him to wonder whether there
ever had been an authentic case of heartbreak. Because he had the most
terrible ache right in his left side!

(Married! Married!)

"But, then," Miss Lome continued, "I’m younger than she is. Her being
married makes her seem young, but she’s really twenty-four. I’m only
twenty."

He shut his eyes, and then opened them. He wished he hadn’t come here, and
then grew shivery to think that he might have happened not to; and all the
while that awful twisting and wrenching at his heart was getting worse and
worse.

(Married! Married! Married!)

Burnett came up just then with a man wearing a monocle and presented him
to Denham, and forthwith handed the bony cousin to his safe-keeping.

"She’s a great pill, isn’t she?" he began, as the couple moved away; and
then he stopped short. "What’s the matter?" he asked. "Sick?"

"I hope not," said Jack, trying to smile.