"Good-night," she whispered.
[CHAPTER XIX]
Jacqueline had been half an hour late at her office and the routine business was not yet quite finished when Captain Herrendene was announced at the telephone.
"I thought you had sailed!" she exclaimed in surprise, as he greeted her over the wire.
He laughed: "I'm ordered to Governor's Island. Jolly, isn't it?"
"Fine!" she said cordially. "We shall see you sometimes, I suppose."
"I'm asked to the Lindley Hammertons for the week-end. Are you to be at Silverwood by any happy chance?"
"Indeed we are. We are going up to-night."