"Not in the least. If you want to please me, say that you'll be very glad to see me again in a few weeks."
"I certainly shall, but I shan't say it. You know it quite well enough without my assurance."
She leaned forward a little.
"But say it all the same, Archie," she said. "Say it quite out loud."
Archie threw back his head and shouted at the stone-pine.
"I shall be very glad to see you again in—what was it?—in a few weeks," he cried.
"Ah, that is nice of you. No, I'm not sure that it's nice, because you've brought Jessie and Mr. Harry out into the garden."
That seemed to be the case, for undeniably the two moved out into the bright square of light cast from the lit passage within. Archie got up swiftly and suddenly, with a bubble of laughter.
"Oh, let's be like the garden scene in Faust," he whispered. "Don't you know, when the two couples wander about? Ah, they've seen us: they don't do that in well-conducted opera."
This was true enough, for immediately Helena's name was called by her sister. She gave a little sigh.