"And will you let me go on living at Merrion—or coming every summer anyhow?"
"Do you think of coming again?"
"I want to," she answered with some nervousness in her manner.
"And Major Duplay?" He smiled slightly.
"I don't know whether he would want. Should you object?"
"Oh, no," said Harry, again with the weary indifference that seemed to have fastened on him now.
"I've been gossiping," she said, "with Mrs Trumbler and Miss Swinkerton."
"Good Lord!"
"Miss Swinkerton says your engagement to Janie will be announced directly after the funeral."
"And Major Duplay says that directly it's announced——!"