“And why are you in a hurry?”
“I can’t tell you; but I must—oh, I must!—be in England in four days.”
“You’ll hardly get your father to give up a day at Avignon.”
“Well, one day there; then we should just do it, if we only slept in Paris.”
“Yes, but my wife——”
“Oh, you can stay. Don’t say anything about Paris yet. Help me to get there. I’ll make papa go on. Please do, Sir Roger. I shall be so awfully obliged to you; so will Mr. Ellerton.”
“Charlie Ellerton? Not he! He’s in no hurry.”
“What do you mean? Didn’t you hear him to-day urging papa to travel straight through?”
“Oh, yes, I heard that.”
“Well?”