'Would you like some?' asked Philip.
'Very much indeed,' answered Artemisia.
'If it be possible to get any, you shall have it,' he said. Then he walked on.
The fore carriage was stopped, and Mrs. Sidebottom was descending with Claudine Labarte, whom she had persuaded to get out with her and pick flowers, thus leaving the captain and Janet by themselves.
'Before long,' said Mrs. Sidebottom, 'we shall be beyond the line where flowers grow, so we must make the best of our opportunity now, Miss Labarte.'
Then Mrs. Sidebottom fell back to where Philip was and took his arm, and pressed it, looked up at him humorously and said, 'I have a bit of news to tell you. He is going to propose. That is why I have got Félicité out of the carriage.'
'Who? Lambert?'
'Lambert, of course. Not the driver. And to Janet. Have you not seen it coming?'
'But perhaps she will not have him.'
'Fiddlestick-ends! Of course she will. Don't you see that she likes him, and has been drawing him on? Besides, I have sounded her. The only difficulty is about Salome.'