However, Captain MacDonnell was waiting for another kind of answer, and after a little Olive gave him the one he desired.
So began for Olive, what still remains, in spite of all the other adventures in life, the great adventure of marriage.
CHAPTER XVIII
"UNDER TWO FLAGS"
ON an afternoon in summer nearly a year later, two flags might be seen flying from the towers of Kent House.
Over the English meadows the wind blew softly, but strongly enough to whip the flags out straight so that from some distance one could see the British Lion and the Stars and Stripes.
Since Olive's engagement to Captain MacDonnell, the United States had entered the war and was now one of the great Allies.
Inside Kent House there was a peculiar atmosphere of excitement and expectancy.