Aylmer laughed.
'Nonsense! Good night, my darling—don't catch cold. And, Edith.'
'Yes, Aylmer?'
'I'll meet you here at nine o'clock tomorrow morning.'
'Yes, Aylmer.'
'Then you'd better go back in the afternoon. It won't do for you to stay another night here. Oh, Edith, how happy we shall be!'
He watched her as she walked across the garden and went into the hotel at the front door. Then he went indoors.
* * * * *
The next day Edith, Dilly and the nurse went back to London early in the afternoon.