"Very well," he said briskly; "keep your distance! Don't start running after me the moment I come in sight across the landscape. Will you promise?"
"I promise," she said solemnly.
"Thank you. I shall have a little leisure now. I'll have so much I won't know what to do with it. Can you advise me?"
"I cannot."
"Then I'll have to think for myself.... I'll have to do something, of course.... Suppose you and I take a canoe——"
"Canoes hold only two, Jack."
"By Jove! What am I thinking of! Thank you for saving me from incredible suffering.... So suppose we don't take a canoe, you and I, but we take the red runabout?"
"Jack!"
"What?"
"The red runabout holds two, only."