"Roy, you're not still serious about Nina?"
"I have never been anything else," he said, delicately.
"But--but why?" Harriet asked.
"I like the girl," he reminded her pleasantly. "I hope she is not entirely indifferent to me--"
"Indifferent! She's at the age that marries anybody!" Harriet said, indignantly.
"You give me hope," Royal said with a bow.
"Her father very violently opposes it," Harriet said, after a troubled silence.
"I am well aware of that, my dear. Her father forbade me the house last December. I submitted; the girl submitted. But we made our plans. I fancy we will not have any difficulty now."
"You mean that you are engaged?"
"An understanding. We have corresponded, seen each other now and then through Ida Tabor. It's," he smiled, dreamily, "extremely romantic, of course," he said.