"Light came—through—the Word," he said at last, slowly.
"Ha!" cried Diana. "I felt sure you would look for it there. And I sat up nearly all night—I mean until midnight—searching my Bible and Prayer-book. But the only applicable thing I found was: 'I will not fail David.' It would have been more comforting to have found: 'David will not fail me!'"
David laughed.
"We shall not fail each other, Miss Rivers."
"Why do you call me 'Miss Rivers'? It is quite absurd to do so, now we are engaged."
"I do not call ladies by their Christian names, when I have known them only a few days," said David.
"Not when you are going to marry them?"
"I have not been going to marry them, before," replied David.
"Oh, don't be tiresome, Cousin David! Are you determined to accentuate our unusual circumstances?"