"Married? When? To whom?"
I said I did not know when, but it was to be to the young Lord Raa.
"Raa? Did you say Raa? That . . . Good G—— But surely you know. . . ."
He did not finish what he was going to say, so I told him I did not know anything, not having seen Lord Raa since I came to school, and everything having been arranged for me by my father.
"Not seen him since . . . everything arranged by your father?"
"Yes."
Then he asked me abruptly where I was staying, and when I told him he said he would walk back with me to the hotel.
His manner had suddenly changed, and several times as we walked together up the Tritoni and along the Du Marcelli he began to say something and then stopped.
"Surely your father knows. . . ."
"If he does, I cannot possibly understand. . . ."