"I am wondering how I shall catch the boat-train to-night," he said.
"Must you do so?" she asked.
He nodded vigorously. "Indeed I must. I have trespassed upon your hospitality quite long enough. And there is work waiting across the Atlantic that only Maurice Capper can do."
She smiled at him. "How indefatigable you are! Won't it wait a little longer?"
"Not a day!" declared Capper.
And neither of them dreamed that that same work would have to wait many days ere Maurice Capper was at liberty to handle it.
They sat down alone to breakfast. Jake and Bunny had had their meal long before.
"There's no holding the boy this morning," Capper observed. "It will be a good thing now when you can get him off to school, Mrs. Bolton. He'll grow quicker there than anywhere."
Maud looked up quickly. "You think so?"
He smiled. "I have told Jake so. He, I believe, is waiting till these all-absorbing races are over to consult you on the subject."