"What is it you want to know?"
"I want to be told what you're doing 'cos I've a funny feeling it isn't—oh! I don't know."
"You extraordinary child. It's perfectly all right. Rather important, that's all. There's nothing for you to bother about. I was going to tell you because I shall have to be away for three weeks and I thought——"
"Three weeks? But we were going to be married on——"
"Yes, that's rotten part. Still the invitations haven't gone out—and if we were to put it off ten days to be on the safe side——"
"Our wedding!" she said.
"I wouldn't have had it happen for the world. It's frightful bad luck but——"
Isabel drew up her knees. Very little and lovely she looked. Her big brown eyes were open wide and her lower lip was drawn in. A shock of chestnut hair framed the sweet oval of her face. Tony had said she was like a serious angel and he was right.
She nodded twice.
"It must be very important," she said, "if we have to postpone our wedding. I see."