"On your side, at any rate, it amounts to an engagement; for you consider yourself bound."
"Upon my word!" cried Tiny hastily. "Do you mind telling me how you come to know so much about my affairs?"
"I am naturally interested in them after all these years."
"How very kind of you! How interested you were when I foolishly offered to tell you myself! So you have been talking me over with Herbert, have you?"
"We have spoken about you to-day for the first time; that is why I'm here."
Christina was white with anger.
"And I suppose," she sneered, "that you have told him things which I have forgotten, and which you might have forgotten as well!"
"I don't think you do suppose that," Swift said gently. "No, he merely told me about your engagement."
"Then why do you want me to tell you?"
"Because you alone can tell me what I most want to know."