"Good-bye," said Arabella.
How courageous she had become all of a sudden, as it were.
"And is this all?" said Jeffery.
"Yes, all. When I see Johanna I will remember you to her."
The colonel bowed again, as he replied—
"I shall be much beholden to you, Miss Wilmot, for that kindness."
"And—and I hope you will find—find—that is, meet with some one, who—who don't chance to know that your love is a kind of second-hand—that is, I don't mean that, but a—a—Yes, that is all."
Arabella was saying too much. The colonel replied gently—
"I am truly obliged for the highly explanatory speech just uttered by Arabella Wilmot, whom I have the honour to wish a very good-day."
Arabella trembled.