"Wrote again—then he did not forget?" She raised her soft eyes, suffused with exquisite surprise.
"He wrote when he thought you were free again. I always felt sure you did not get the letter. He took some precautions, and was confident you must have had it, though grandpa returned it without a word!"
"I never heard from him. Jane said when your engagement was broken—" Marian paused and flushed.
"That he would marry me."
Marian nodded. It had given her a heartache, she remembered. So long as he married no one he did not seem so completely cut off that she must cast him utterly out of her life.
"Well, you see he did not. I think now I could not have married anyone but Roger, if I had waited ten years."
"Then, you know, came Mr. Greaves' death and father's, and mother's failing health. I feel quite like an old woman."
"At five-and-twenty! Nonsense! See how young mamma is!"
"She is lovely, Jaqueline!" with enthusiasm.
"I don't know what papa would do without her."