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"I haven't
been causing anything."
"Well, what's the gossip? You usually hear pretty much everything
that goes on around the nooks and crannies in this town, I hear.
What's the last from the gossips' corner, auntie?"
Fanny dropped her eyes, and the spark was concealed, but a movement of
her lower lip betokened a tendency to laugh, as she replied. "There
hasn't been much gossip lately, except the report that Lucy Morgan and
Fred Kinney are engaged--and that's quite old, by this time."
Undeniably, this bit of mischief was entirely successful, for there
was a clatter upon George's plate. "What--what do you think you're
talking about?" he gasped.
Miss Fanny looked up innocently. "About the report of Lucy Morgan's
engagement to Fred Kinney."
George turned dumbly to his mother, and Isabel shook her head
reassuringly. "People are always starting rumours," she said. "I
haven't paid any attention to this one."
"But you--you've heard it?" he stammered.
"Oh, one hears all sorts of nonsense, dear. I haven't the slightest
idea that it's true.


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