‘I have quite abandoned them. Will you come a little further this way, and walk in the aisle? You do still agree to be mine?’
‘If it gives you any pleasure, I do.’
‘Yes, yes. I implore that the marriage may be soon—very soon.’ The viscount spoke hastily, for the notes of the organ which were plunging into their ears ever and anon from the hands of his young rival seemed inconveniently and solemnly in the way of his suit.
‘Well, Lord Mountclere?’
‘Say in a few days?—it is the only thing that will satisfy me.’
‘I am absolutely indifferent as to the day. If it pleases you to have it early I am willing.’
‘Dare I ask that it may be this week?’ said the delighted old man.
‘I could not say that.’
‘But you can name the earliest day?’
‘I cannot now. We had better be going from here, I think.’