Understandably, Brat thought. England and Eleanor together was heaven enough. "I don't see him here to-night?"
"No, he didn't stay for the dance. He just came to get a silver cup to take home to his wife."
"His wife!"
"Yes, she had their first baby last week, and she sent him to the show to get a christening mug for it. What is the matter?" she asked.
"Remind me sometime to break Ruth's neck," he said, beginning to dance again.
She looked amused and said: "Has Ruth been romancing?"
"She said he wanted to marry you."
"Oh, well, he did have an idea like that but it's a long time ago. And of course he wasn't married last year, so Ruth probably didn't know about it. Are you going to be all patriarchal and supervise my marriage plans?"
"Have you any?"
"None at all."