‘And you didn’t tell me.’
‘No; I couldn’t. It has been too wonderful to speak of. I’m made like that. I should have told you, though, before long.’
‘Have you spoken to Margery?’ he asked. ‘No, of course you haven’t.’
‘No; I haven’t spoken to anybody.’
Dick got up.
‘Come away,’ he said. ‘I don’t like this place. And what are we to do?’
I looked at my watch.
‘Start for Braceton at once,’ I said, ‘or the train will be in before we get there.’
Dick put his arm in mine.
‘I say, Jack,’ he said, ‘whatever happens, we’ll behave decently, won’t we?’