At least,
he amended, that was the way every one felt about it at present.
The afternoon papers had published the brief statement prepared by
Robin in the seclusion of his stateroom on board the _Jupiter_
immediately after a most enjoyable hour with Miss Guile. It was a
curt and extremely positive denial of the rumoured engagement, with
the additional information that he never had seen Miss Blithers and
was more or less certain that she never had set eyes on him.
A rather staggering co-incidence appeared with the published report
that Miss Blithers herself was supposed to be somewhere in Europe,
word having been received that day from sources in London that she
had sailed from New York under an assumed name. The imaginative
French journals put two and two together and dwelt upon the
possibility that the two young people who had never seen each other
might have crossed the Atlantic on the same steamer, seeing each
other frequently and yet remaining entirely in the dark, so to speak.
Inspired writers began to weave a romance out of the probabilities.
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