"You mustn't stay a minute longer," she whispered. "Willie is at home. You telephoned you had something awfully important to tell me."
"Yes. You've got to help me make the most important decision of my life."
"Can't it wait?"
"No. I must decide to-day. My leave of absence has been withdrawn, and I've been ordered back to my cavalry regiment at once."
So disaster followed disaster.
"Isn't there any way out of it?" she asked, weakly.
"I tried to get the order recalled, but there is some influence against me at Washington."
"Some woman! I know! It's Willie's mother. She has General Branscombe under her thumb."
"But that would mean that she suspected us!"
"A woman always suspects the worst. And she's always right. Well, what are we to do?"