"Picture-galleries—"
"Nonsense, Cyril! You can't impose on people like that!"
"And everything else that's going!"
"If you don't choose to tell me the real reason, you needn't at least pretend—"
"I shall start to-morrow morning—early express."
"Such an extraordinary thing to decide all in a moment—and not a word to me—"
"Couldn't publish the fact before I knew it myself. Aunt, you've not heard, I suppose, whether anything is settled about Mr. Trevelyan?"
"I thought you were there all yesterday afternoon."
Cyril's joyous indifference was more amazing to Sybella than his previous irritability.
"At the Rectory! I've not seen Jean for days—not spoken to her, I mean. Nothing settled yet?"