“Of course you will go over and pay your respects at once.”
“If I can spare the time——”
“My dear Arthur, try to rise to your full stature.”
Wilverley replied briskly:
“Now, Mary, out with it. What’s in your busy mind?”
“Concern for others. Concern for you. There are moments, Arthur, when you impress me as being a big boy. At such moments I feel maternal.”
“Forrard! Forrard!”
“I told you some months ago to—to—let me see, what did I say?”
“You told me to ‘go’ for Cicely—and I did. She turned me down. No complaints! I acted prematurely.”
“From what you told me she encouraged you to try again.”