Then Sam's voice sounded close at hand:
"Why," he said admiringly, "it looks like lovey and dovey!"
"It is," said Valerie, laughing.
"You!—and Kelly!"
"We two."
Sam in his excitement became a little wild and incongruous:
"'My wife's gone to the country!
Hooray! Hooray!'"
he shouted, holding hands with Annan and swinging back and forth.
"Sam!" exclaimed Hélène, mortified.
"Darling?—oh, gee! I forgot what is due to decorum! Please, please forgive me, Hélène! And kindly inform these ladies and gentlemen that you have consented to render me eternally and supremely happy; because if I tried to express to them that delirious fact I'd end by standing on my head in the grass—"