"Very well, my dear, keep calm about it. It doesn't matter. Here I offer," said Savile, "to please you, to be engaged again, and you don't like my terms. Then it's off."
"I think you're more cruel than Robert," said Dolly.
"But not such an ass," said Savile.
"And not so treacherous," admitted Dolly, who seemed as if she did not want him to go.
"Just tell me what you mean by your freedom," she said pleadingly.
"As I'm placed," said Savile mysteriously, "all I want is to see The Other Girl once, on Wednesday. I shall probably only have a few words with her. Then I believe they are going away, and I'm going back to school."
"They are going away," said Dolly, mystified. "Then is there more than one?"
"More than one? Good God, no! One's enough!" said Savile, with a sigh.
"After all," said Dolly very prettily, "I do trust you, Savile."
Savile was intensely pleased, but he only answered gruffly, "That's as well to know!"