"No," he said heavily, "this."
"Have you paid for your passage?"
"Yes, of course. Why?"
"Because I'm afraid you will waste it."
He shook his head.
"You had no cable from Las Palmas during the last two days?"
"No. Have you? What are you driving at?" There was something so pathetic in his brown eyes that she had not the heart to drag out her explanation any further. She pulled a letter from her pocket, marked a place with her thumb and showed it to him.
He put a heavy hand down on the bookstall and stirred the papers into little heaps. "My God! Laura married. Married! Let me think what this means!"
A very indignant bookstall keeper began to make remarks, but Kate said, "Thank you. Those are the ones I want. Please tie them up for me. Here's a sovereign." And then she put a hand on Carter's arm and led him outside the crowd.
"Well," she said, "have you decided yet if you are entirely broken-hearted?"