"When and where you please, darling."
"You trust me?"
"Yes, on the understanding that when I am your wife you tell me everything--everything!"
Burton nodded again. "I will tell you before if I can, Brenda. It is good of you, and like your dear self, to trust me. We can be married at St. Chad's, at Brighton. I'll get a special license. Down there we shall be free from interference by Van Zwieten."
"He would not dare----"
"Oh, yes, he would--if he knew. He would take some means of preventing our marriage."
"And you would let him do that?"
"I--I might, and I might not." Captain Burton sighed wearily. "If it were only myself I would not mind, but--but there are others whom I must consider."
"Harold, you are shielding some one!"
"Yes--no. Brenda, dearest, for Heaven's sake don't question me."