"You seem to know all about them," said Tommy, with some bitterness. "Are they married?"
"Oh, no," said Ben.
"Are they engaged?" Tommy pursued.
"If you mean, Are they engaged to me? No," said Ben.
"Neither of them?" he asked.
"Neither or both," she replied. "You seem to have missed your vocation," she added, laughing. "You ought to have been a cross-examiner. In fact, I believe you are—very cross."
"I'm frightfully sorry," said Tommy; "but it's awfully disappointing coming back and finding you locked up in an office. I was counting on seeing such a lot of you, and now you say you've only got Saturday afternoons."
"We must make the most of those," she said.
It was on their way back from a country walk that Tommy took Ben's hand and repeated his annual question.
"What about it?" he said.