best--in the circumstances," he answered, with an
embarrassed, boyish laugh, and then, dinner being announced, Jimmy
offered his arm to Carrissima. While the servants were present
everybody seemed to have a great deal to say with the exception of Miss
Faversham, whose silence failed, however, to attract the least
attention. By the time dessert was reached she began to show symptoms
of recovering from her not unnatural embarrassment; Jimmy's glass was
full. He drank champagne this evening.

"I was wondering," said Mark, when the four were left by themselves,
"whether I might be of some use before the evening ended. Carrissima
suggested an accident."

"There was not much you could call accidental about it, was there,
Bridget?" said Jimmy.

"Oh dear!" she exclaimed, "I wish somebody would say something
illuminating! I am positively dying from curiosity!"

"The important question is," suggested Jimmy, "what did Carrissima say?"

"And," said Bridget, "what did Mark ask her?"

Carrissima looked entreatingly into his face across the table.

"The fact is," he explained, disregarding her mute appeal, "I asked her
to marry me!"

Bridget was on her feet in an instant.

"Oh, how immensely pleased I am!" she cried, stooping to kiss
Carrissima's forehead. "Jimmy, you may drink your wine now!"

He lost no time in raising his glass.

"Carrissima!" he said. "Mark, old chap!"

She looked across the table, half smiles, half tears.

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