"Nobody knows." After a pause Nigel said abruptly—
"What makes you think of Elvey marrying Ethel?"
"Everybody says it."
"Who?"
"Mr. Carden-Cox, and Fulvia, and the Brambles, and—oh, all sorts of people."
"Have you seen signs of it in Ethel herself?"
Nigel spoke quietly, and it was growing dusk.
But when Daisy looked up in answer, with a meditative "I don't know," she thought her brother oddly pale. "Why, Nigel!" she said, staring.
"What is the matter?"
"Why, you look—"