'Wellcan you match the colours? You have put in the teakettles rather strong.'
'I hope they'll be strong,' said Dane, 'if they are anything. If there is anything I don't like, it is weak ware.'
Hazel was silent, looking rather intently into the fire.
'I think I have mentioned everything except the bride's dress and the wedding journey. And the first subject I feel myself incompetent to approach. In general, the main thing is that it should gratify curiosity and be somehow in advance of anything of the kind ever worn before. Is not that the great point?'
'Did you ever set Prim to talk to me about my dress?' said Hazel, facing round upon him with a wide change of subject in her own mind. Dane, with his own still before him, laughed and said no; and then asked with some curiosity why she enquired?'
'I was afraid you had,that is all.'
'That is a little too much. I never set other people to do my work.'
He could see a gleam of pleasure cross her face, but she only said quietly, 'I am glad.'
'What did Prim say to you?'
'O it was some time agothe night we were in Norway together. Prim asked me what I was going to "do" about dress. And to this day I do not know what she meant.'