"Not any of the time."
"Is he away, then?"
"No. If you must know the truth, we had—well, I can hardly say, we had quarrelled; but Geoffrey had been very disagreeable, and I was glad to leave him to himself for the afternoon."
"You are good friends again now, no doubt?"
"We have not seen each other since. Geoffrey has gone away, without letting any one know where he was going, and his poor mother is anxious and unhappy about him. He is so impetuous—so erratic."
"And you, his sweetheart, are still more anxious, no doubt?"
"I am anxious chiefly for his poor mother's sake. She is too easily frightened."
"Can they have gone away together, anywhere?" said Lady Emily.
"Together—Allan and Geoffrey!" exclaimed Suzette. "No, I don't think they would do that."
"Why not? They were together for two years in Africa."