"Perhaps! It all depends."
"Upon what?"
"Truth to tell, I hardly know," answered Macjean coolly. "Whims, fancies and desires of sport, I think."
"He doesn't care a bit about me or he would not talk so coldly about going away," thought Victoria, with a sad feeling at her heart, but, being too proud to show her real feelings, merely laughed as she answered his remark.
"There's nothing like enthusiasm! Well, Mr. Macjean, I'm glad to see you again."
"Do you really mean that?" he said anxiously, "or is it only the conventional society phrase?"
"Why should you think so?" replied Miss Sheldon in a displeased tone. "You know I always spoke my mind regardless of social observances."
"I have not forgotten that," observed Otterburn quietly. "Candour is such a wonderful thing to meet with now-a-days, that anyone with such a virtue is sure to be remembered."
"For nine days, I suppose? she said jestingly.
"Yes! or eighteen months," he responded meaningly.