She nodded her head, but her eyes still remained fixed on his toes.
‘Answer me,’ he commanded.
‘Yes,’ she said, and lifted her eyes to his.
A moment later she disengaged herself from his arms and began to laugh.
‘I was going to extract such a lot of conditions,’ she said. ‘Somehow I don’t care about them now. But will you tell me just what is going to happen?’
‘You knew, I suppose, that I should have already mapped everything out. Well, so I have. We shall be married at once, in the quietest possible fashion, and then we are going round the world in our own way. It is to be your holiday after all these years of work.’
She nodded, with perfect acquiescence in his plans.
‘At once?’ she said questioningly.
‘A week from to-day,’ he said.
The notion of such precipitancy brought the blood into her face.