"And you will not?"
"I suppose," Brooks said, "that I must not think of it."
"You must give up thinking about her, of course," Lady Caroom said, "until—" Until what?
"Until you can ask her—if ever you do ask her—to marry you in your proper name."
Brooks set his teeth and walked up and down the little room.
"That," he said, "may be never."
"Exactly," Lady Caroom agreed. "That is why I am suggesting that you do not see her so often."
He stopped opposite her.
"Does he—does Lord Arranmore know anything of this?"
She shook her head.