'Where is Captain Rallywood?' she added abruptly.
His name had not passed between them since the interview at the block-house.
'I cannot tell you. I don't know,' said Valerie coldly.
'Oh, my dear child, all is fair in love and war! Why be so dreadfully cross with me still?'
'Is it necessary to recur to the subject at all?'
'Will you never forgive me, I wonder?'
Valerie looked steadily back into the lovely face, where the underlying spirit of mockery was transmuted into an innocent playfulness like a child's.
'On the contrary, I thank you.'
'Why—for humbling him? Valerie, you are——'
'Happy!' Valerie could not forego the very womanly triumph, 'very happy! And you made me so.'