"We said," she reminded him, "that we weren't 'engaged' at all."
"I know," he said. Then he laughed as he stooped and kissed her little ringless fingers and the palms of her hands. "But——"
There was a pause.
"Got to marry me one day, you know," said young Paul Dampier seriously.
He might have spoken more seriously still if he had known that what he said must happen in ten days' time from then.
CHAPTER IV
THAT WEEK-END
For the following week-end saw, among many other things that had not been bargained for, those lovers apart again.