“Yes.”
“Very well. Will you drive me to the village at once?”
Leon hesitated.
“Well, not just at once, you know. You must remain here a short time, and go through certain formalities and routine work, and attest certain things before a lawyer.”
Edith smiled.
“What a simpleton you must still think me! How easy you must think it is to impose upon me! Perhaps you think me so credulous, or so much in the habit of confiding in you, that no such thing as doubt ever enters my mind.”
Leon glared angrily at her.
“I tell you I must have it,” he cried, in excited tones. “I must have it—by fair means or foul.”
“But of the two ways I presume you have a preference for the latter,” said Edith.
“I tell you I must and will have it,” reiterated Leon.