Kitty sighed, then she smiled, then she put up her hand to sweep away the curls from her forehead.
"Oh yes," she said then; "of course I am. We are going to be married."
"I wonder," said the major, "if you would thank me for a piece of information?"
"What? what?" she asked eagerly.
"Something to do with Captain Keith."
"What do you know about Gavon?"
"Something. Would you thank me if I told you?"
"I'd like to hear it very much. I don't believe you know anything bad of him."
"Nothing exactly bad, and yet something important—at least for you. I can tell you if you will make me a promise. I think you ought to know it, too, but I can only tell you if you make me a promise."
"And what is that?"