A Social Meteor — page 166: what you’re looking at

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156 A SOCIAL METEOR. Once, Jack, forgetting himself, addressed Miss Wheatley by her first name, and then seeing his mistake, colored and stopped short. But she yonl smiled and assured him that no harm was done. Nevertheless he was more careful after that. While dressing that afternoon, Georgie had come across the ring which she had bought for Ray, and until then, forgotten all about. She had picked it up, intending to carry it to her at once, when suddenly, at the recollection of the conversation of the night before, she had stopped short. “No,” she had said, quietly, slipping it on her own finger, “I won’t give it to her; if she had shown the least particle of generosity or consid- eration toward me, I would be only too happy to make her a present. But I won’t do it, feeling as I do toward her.” At dessert Jack’s eye fell upon the: ring, and while admiring it, managed to say in a low tone, so that the others, who were discussing a recent wedding, might not hear: “Have you forgotten the time when my ring encircled that little finger ?” “I’m sure I hope so,” she responded, cheerfully. Comicbooks com