"Love!"
"Love!"
"Husband!"
"Wife!"
There was a knock at the door.
"Please, miss," said the housemaid, "lunch is ready. Mr. Goodrick has come, your Grace. And the downstairs rooms are full of gentlemen of the press. And there's men with photographic cameras, too. I've asked the master what I am to do, but he only laughs, miss! I can't get anything out of him. But lunch is ready!"
"Sweetheart," the duke said, "lunch is ready! There's a fact! Let's cling to it! And if Rose is laughing, let's laugh, too, and dodge the journalists!"
"It will be a very happy laughter, John," she said.
As the couple came into the luncheon-room—which was full of the leaders of the socialistic movement—Mr. Goodrick cast a swift glance at the duke and Mary, and then left the place with an unobtrusive air.
The Daily Wire had no evening edition.