"You took me away with you and Jack. The rest followed."
"Oh, that. I didn't understand. Well, as we shall get you down to Monte Carlo soon, you will meet your boy again."
"I wish I could be sure."
"I thought you said it was an engagement."
"Only conditional. Besides, had we walked, we should have been weeks on the way. I wonder you don't laugh in my face, Mrs. Winston, but you'd understand if you could have met the Boy."
"I supposed Jack was your best friend," complained Molly.
"So he is. But this is different. I'm going to look for the Boy at Monte Carlo. What I'm hoping is, that after all he may keep the half-engagement he made to meet me there."
"When?"
"On the night after my arrival for a dinner at the Hôtel de Paris, to be given in honour of him and his sister."
"You think he will?"