"Is there any trouble?" She appeared surprised.
"I fear so. She told me she was not sure that they were going to be married."
"Did she say that?"
"She said it, but she may not have meant it. I cannot understand."
Angelica pondered his words. "Well, I've noticed lately that she wasn't very nice to him."
"But she was wildly in love with him. She cannot have changed so suddenly."
"Why not?" She raised her eyebrows slightly. "People do change, don't they?"
"Not when they are like Mary." With a gesture of perplexity, he put the subject away from him. "What I really came to tell you isn't very much better," he said. "Of late, since the war began, things have been going rather badly with me. I dare say I'll manage to pull up sooner or later, but every interest in which I am heavily involved has been more or less affected by the condition of the country. If we should go into this war——"
She looked up sharply. "Don't you think we can manage to keep out of it?"
"To keep out of it?" Even now there were moments when she astonished him.