described in the broadest and most ignoble terms. When she had done

"Now I know who it comes from," she remarked simply.

And as Muffat wanted her denial to the charges therein contained,

"That's a matter which doesn't concern you, dear old pet. How can

She did not deny anything. He used some horrified expressions.

Thereupon she shrugged her shoulders. Where had he been all this

time? Why, it was done everywhere! And she mentioned her friends

and swore that fashionable ladies went in for it. In fact, to hear