'Yes, but keep to the point.'
'Wait till after dinner, then,' said he laughing.
So they waited; and when the servant had ended his ministrations and gone, Dane took a position of ease beside Wych Hazel on the sofa, and gathered up the notes in his hand.
'Now, Wych, what is the question here?'
'Why, as of courseof course I should not go anywhere now without you, I must know first where you will go,' said Hazel with one of her pretty shy looks. 'And as some occasions demand But I am in inextricable confusion about my dress!'she said, breaking off with a laugh. 'I may as well confess it at once.'
'Does my bird of paradise want room to spread her wings?' said he, looking in her face.
'And shew herself? No, I have done enough of that.'
'If we keep the key-note of life's music clear and true, we shall find the chords, Wych. How are you in confusion?'
' "If thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light," ' she answered thoughtfully. 'But do you know, light is very confusing sometimes?'
'No.'