"Queer old stick, isn't he?" he asked.
"He's been very kind to me," Marie answered.
"He's kind to everybody," Chris agreed. "I hope I shall not lose sight of him just because I am married."
"Why should you?"
"Because he's a confirmed bachelor, and he thought I was; he was furious with me for getting married."
"Was he?"
"Yes, we always knocked about together, you see, and I suppose he thinks everything will be different now."
"It need not be," said Marie.
"No, that's what I tell him," Chris agreed, eagerly. "I told him 93 you were not an exacting woman; I told him that we had known one another all our lives."
There was a little silence.