"Very well, Gilbert," she answered, turning her face towards him.
"You've deceived us all, Rachel," he said as he kissed her. "We'd made up our minds to hate you because you were taking our little Roger from us, and at first we thought we were right to hate you because you were so aggressive to us, but you've deceived us. We don't hate you. We like you, Rachel!"
"Do you, Gilbert?" She turned to Ninian and Henry. "Do you like me, too?" she said.
"I shouldn't mind marrying you myself," Ninian replied.
"I don't see why Gilbert should get all the kisses," said Henry. "After all, I more or less gave you away, didn't I? I was there anyhow!...."
So she kissed Ninian and Henry too. Then, a little later, Roger and she went off to spend a honeymoon in Normandy.
9
"I feel horribly lonely somehow," said Gilbert to Henry. Ninian, in a hurry to catch the train for Boveyhayne at Waterloo, had left them at Charing Cross.
Henry nodded his head.
"This marrying and giving in marriage is the devil, isn't it?" Gilbert went on. "We ought to cheer ourselves up, Quinny!"