"Well?"
"You are a very confident person," she murmured.
"I am confident of one thing, at any rate," I answered, "and that is that you are going to be my wife!"
She rebuked me with a glance, which was also wonderfully sweet.
"Some one will hear you," she whispered.
I shook my head.
"Every one is too busy talking about the mysteries to come," I declared.
She shrugged her dazzlingly white shoulders.
"Perhaps even you," she murmured, "may take them more seriously some day."
A few minutes later Mrs. Van Reinberg rose.