“You are forgetting our compact. I’m surprised at you, Hal. I call it a slight on the sunshine.”
“Why, so it is!... Avaunt, and leave my mind, Holloway! This day belongs to the spring.”
And until they drew up outside the Criterion Grill, she kept her spirits high, and gave herself to the joy of the hour.
CHAPTER XXXVI
When they were half-way through dinner Hal asked, a trifle abruptly:
“Now, what about this piece of news? What does it mean?”
He looked away, unable to meet her candid eyes, and said:
“I will tell you presently.”
“Where? Why not now? Why all this secrecy?”
“Because it is rather a big matter. You have sometimes said you would like to see the horns and trophies I brought back from my shooting-trip in Canada. Come and see them this evening.”