“Very well, if you say so. It's all the same to me.” It was Polly; and then a man's voice said:
“What night shall it be, then, Robert?”
And a second man's voice answered, with a drawl, “Better let the girls choose for themselves, don't you know.”
John Storm felt his hands and feet grow cold, and he stepped out into the porch. Glory saw him coming and made a faint cry of recognition.
“Ah, here is Mr. Storm! Mr. Storm, you should know Mr. Drake. He was in the Isle of Man, you remember——”
“I do not remember,” said John Storm.
“But you saved his life, and you ought to know him——”
“I do not know him,” said John Storm.
She was beginning to say, “Let me introduce——” But she stopped and stood silent for a moment, while the strange light came into her gleaming eyes of something no word could express, and then she burst into noisy laughter.
A superintendent Sister going through the hall at the moment drew up and said, “Nurse, I am surprised at you! Go to your rooms this instant!” and the girls whispered their adieus and went off giggling.