"Mrs. Kennedy?" replied Eddie’s voice. "I hope you’re better?"
"Thank you, sir, I’m quite well again. Won’t you step in?"
Angelica greeted him with an uncertain smile; she didn’t know what his attitude would be. But he was certainly not vexed, or cold, or suspicious; he was simply excited, not himself.
"Well!" he said. "I’ve done it!"
"Done what?" she asked.
"I’ve enlisted."
"You’re going to the war?"
"Yes."
"But I thought you didn’t approve of it. You said it was beastly, and everything."
"Yes, I do think so; but——”