"Don Pablo has more, I fancy."
"I don't care what he has. He hasn't got you for a wife and he never will have. You will marry me and no one else."
"Yes, I promise you that, Douglas. But there will be trouble."
"Pooh!" Montrose laughed joyously. "I'd face a universe of trouble if you were the prize to be obtained by enduring it. Besides, Eberstein says that we belong to one another."
"How does he know?"
"He knows many things that are strange and true. When he comes back he will explain. He promised to do so. Meantime, all we have to do is to be true to one another. We are engaged. Say we are engaged, Alice."
"Yes. We are engaged. I shall marry no one but you."
"Hurrah! Then we shall be happy for ever and ever——"
"Amen," said the girl thankfully. "All the same, I fear Don Pablo."