A flicker of disappointment appeared in Maud Darling's eyes.
"But I didn't know you were married," she said lamely.
"Oh, I'm not—yet!" he exclaimed joyfully. "But I mean to be."
"Engaged?" she asked.
"Hope to be—mean to be," he confessed.
And at this moment Colonel Melville Meredith came in out of the night. Having bowed very low to Miss Darling, he turned to his cousin.
"Did Langham find you?" he asked.
"No."
"Well, he's a-waiting at our house. I said I thought you'd be right back."
"Then we—" began Jonstone.