"Yes," he agreed, but he evidently had some misgiving.
"But you're not so certain as you were a minute ago that you can keep the place of your absence a secret. Is that it?"
"Mrs. Veynol has an uncanny faculty of finding things out," he confided miserably.
"Now, there's where Nina has an advantage," Lady Bellingdown suggested. "She has no mother. You would have had no distressing mother-in-law."
Sir Caryll was thoughtful. Then: "But Mrs. Darling is too old for me. She said so herself."
"I suppose that's true. Nina seems fixed in her purpose never to marry. Fancy a woman saying she is too old for any man!"
"She counts by experience rather than years possibly. One would never think of age in her case if she didn't remind one."
"She's very lovely," said Kitty Bellingdown with something of finality. "Where will you and Rosamond spend your honeymoon?" she added.
"That's just it," Carleigh returned with knitted brow. "It's the one problem that troubles me. Honeymoon places are so devilishly well known. All Mrs. Veynol would have to do is to keep her eyes on the newspapers. She'd spot us within a week. And then—she'd follow."
"You might travel incognito."