She sings, with a wicked look in her dark eyes, as she watches her cavalier.
Charley is not going to be put off however; he declines to talk of either wind or weather.
"Answer my question, Edith, if you please. If Sir Victor Catheron asks you, will you be his wife?"
She looks at him calmly, steadily, the man she loves, and answers:
"If Sir Victor Catheron asks me, I will be his wife."
CHAPTER VII.
SHORT AND SENTIMENTAL.
Two days later, and Fastnet Rock looms up against the blue sky; the iron-bound Irish coast appears. At noon they will land in Queenstown.
"Come back to Erin, mavourneen, mavourneen," sings Charley's voice down the passage, early in the morning.
Charley can sing a little still. He is to lose Edith. Sir Victor
Catheron is to win and wear; but as she is not Lady Catheron yet, Mr.
Stuart postpones despair and suicide until she is.