“I thought Diana was wonderfully beautiful⁠—such eyes, Miles!⁠—and such hair! Miss Beauleigh is very amiable, and so droll! I drank a dish of tay with them, and I spoke of Jack⁠—”

“Madcap, never tell me ye called him Carstares?”

“No, you great gaby! Of course I did not. As it chanced, Miss Beauleigh mentioned him first, and she called him Mr. Carr. So I did, too. And I noticed that Diana said scarce a word about him, and when she did ’twas of the coolest. That, of course, made me all the more certain that she loved him.”

O’Hara was plainly puzzled.

“But why should you be certain if she did not speak of him, alanna?”