'You are under a mistake. I am not going to be an age at Gyda's.'
'Wellthen Gyda will be disappointed.'
'And you?'
'You know you always have sufficient force of character to disappoint me easily.'
'Have I? Would it disappoint you very much if I proposed to be married at Christmas?'
'In that case,' answered Miss Wych, 'the force of character would be on my side, and the disappointment on yours.'
'May I ask your views?' said Dane, with a coolness that was provoking.
'Ah, be quiet!' said Hazel in desperation,'you are perplexing all my ideas. Is it five lumps of sugaror sixthat go in when you have control of the sugar bowl?'
'The question is, just now, how many go in when you have the control?' But then he let the supper take its course for a while in commonplace peace.
'I wonder,' Wych Hazel began suddenly, her thoughts flying back to the talk before tea,'I was thinkingI have thought very often,how many things you will find in me that you do not like? And how little there is you would like to find!'