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 His lordship poured out some champagne.

“Really, you know, that ’s rather a stunner!” he admitted.

“It is, if what everybody said was true,” answered his companion—“that she turned you down hard at Biarritz last May. Anyhow, she 's engaged to Cosmo Hamilton at last—it was announced about a month ago. I wonder where Micky got that picture.”

“I—I never—asked her—really,” he protested. “Rum sort of a child, but an awful ripper!”

“Never mind, old chap!” cooed Mrs. Trevelyan soothingly. “You ’ve still got me.”

“Yes, until Trevelyan comes out in a tug off Fire Island,” he retorted dryly, wrinkling his nose.

“Well, cheer up—and give me a cigarette!” she admonished him. “Let ’s have a good time while it lasts.”

The deck-house, or “Island,” of the Pavonia is designated to accommodate second-class passengers, but the rooms are large and catch more air than those in the main body of the ship, for