Rollo leaned back against one side of the rockaway, and answered, while the old horse walked leisurely on—,
'I have looked at the subject from a new point of view, Prim.'
'Have you?—From what point of view, Duke?' said Primrose, much interested.
'I have made up my mind,' said Rollo slowly, 'I shall waltz no more,—except with the lady who will be my wife. And when I waltz with her,—she will waltz with nobody else!'
Prim sat back in her corner, and spoke not a word more.
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE LOSS OF ALL THINGS.
'And how do you like your new neighbour, Prim?' said the young Dr. Maryland the first night of his return home. He had talked all tea-time to the collective family without once mentioning Miss Kennedy's name, and now put the question to his sister as they sat alone together in the twilight.
'O Arthur, very much.'
'You see a good deal of her?' was the next question, asked after a pause.