"
"For their party next week?"
"Yes. I hope Kitty won't tire herself out. It has been a rush lately."
"Does she ever rest?"
"Never--as far as I can see. And I am afraid she has been very much
worried."
"About that silly affair with Prince Stephan?" said Lady Tranmore.
Margaret French nodded. "She vows that she meant no harm, and did no
harm, and that it has been all malice and exaggeration. But one can see
she has been hurt."
"Well, if you ask me," said Lady Tranmore, in a low voice, "I think she
deserved to be."
Their eyes met, the girl's full of a half-smiling, half-soft
consideration. Lady Tranmore, on the other hand, had flushed proudly, as
though the mere mention of the matter to which she had referred had been
galling to her. Kitty, in fact, had just been guilty of an escapade
which had set the town talking, and even found its way here and there in
the newspapers. The heir to a European monarchy had been recently
visiting London. A romantic interest surrounded him; for a lady, not of
a rank sufficiently high to mate with his, had lately drowned herself
for love of him, and the young man's melancholy good looks, together
with the magnificent apathy of his manner, drew after him a chain of
gossip.
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