"So mother told me--I've been taking your baggage aboard and seeing to your cabin."
"And you have been doing that while we----"
"I wanted to do something for you, Thora."
"But, Magnus, you ought to have been here by rights. Oscar always wished it. In fact he wanted you to be his best man."
"Oscar did?"
"Indeed he did, but you couldn't be found, because you had gone on your journey."
Over the sound of the music and the dancing the Governor's voice came from within, mingled with the Factor's hearty laughter.
"Perhaps it was just as well I was away," said Magnus. "The old people have never forgiven me for what I did, and if they ever came to suspect that somebody else was responsible----"
He stopped, and then Thora dropped her eyes and said:
"I was so glad you were in the cathedral."