"How can you be spared from your business?" asked Virginia, after a pause.
"I will plead ill health—anything. There will be no difficulty about that."
"Shall I tell my aunt?"
"No; not till you are almost ready to start."
"Why not?"
"It is better that there should be no gossip about it. Besides, your aunt would probably be scandalized by our hasty marriage, and insist upon delay. That's something we should neither of us be willing to consent to."
"No, for it would interfere with our European trip."
"You consent, then, to my plans?"
"Yes; I will give you your own way this time," said Virginia, smiling.