you have just told me that you love another
woman, and are going to meet her?"

Freeman's brows gradually knitted themselves
in a frown of apparent perplexity.
"I must say I don't understand you," he
observed, at length. "I am quite sure I
have said nothing of the sort. How could
I?"

"If you wish to quibble about words,
perhaps not. But was not that your meaning?"

"No, it wasn't. You are the only woman
who has been in my thoughts to-day."

"Mr. Freeman!"

"Well?"

"You have intimated very clearly that
you are engaged--married, for aught I know
--to a woman whom you are now on your
way to meet----"

At this point she stopped. Freeman had
interrupted her with a shout of laughter.

She had been very pale. She now flushed
all over her face, and jumped to her feet.