“I will carry my own luggage.”

“Never!”

163“But I shall go with you.”

“Is that a final decision?”

She nodded, an emphatic, half-fierce little nod, and frowned.

Pats smiled. “Miss Elinor Marshall, I am, as I have before remarked, your humble and adoring slave. Your will is law. When shall we start?”

“Whenever you say.”

“To-morrow?”

She nodded, this time with a smile.

“Early?”