\"Did you tell my cousin Ellen?\" she asked presently, as if she spoke through a dream.
He roused himself, and remembered that he had not done so. Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips.
\"No—I hadn't the chance after all,\" he said, fibbing hastily.
\"Ah.\" She looked disappointed, but gently resolved on gaining her point. \"You must, then, for I didn't
\"Did you tell my cousin Ellen?\" she asked presently, as if she spoke through a dream.
He roused himself, and remembered that he had not done so. Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips.
\"No—I hadn't the chance after all,\" he said, fibbing hastily.
\"Ah.\" She looked disappointed, but gently resolved on gaining her point. \"You must, then, for I didn't
