“Dick, why on earth? I was going to have the most heavenly evening here.”
Dick looked perplexed. “Why, she wanted us and I knew we didn’t have anything on and it didn’t occur to me to say no.”
Cecily sighed.
“The Palladium is rather fun, sometimes,” suggested Dick.
“I suppose it is, but—well, any place is fun where we can be together.”
“Of course, dear. I’ll call Mollie up, though, if you like and tell her I forgot that we were to be busy.”
“No, don’t do that. Mollie’s a dear and I wouldn’t like to play a trick on her. We’ll go.”
“You know we won’t be going about like this all our married life. Just now we’re a novelty as a couple, but we’ll get to the slippered stage. Especially——”
“Especially,” agreed Cecily, with a tender little laugh.
“And now,” said Dick, jumping off the chair, “as the good Lady Macbeth said—to bed! And may the good days of domesticity thicken around us, shutting out all ribald pleasure!”