“You are provoking!” he burst out. “It is enough to make me force you to carry out at once what you have promised.”
“I cannot!” she insisted desperately.
“Why? When I have only within these few minutes released you from your promise to do the thing offhand.”
“Because—he was a witness!”
“Witness? Of what?
“If I must tell you——. Don’t, don’t upbraid me!”
“Well! Let’s hear what you mean?”
“Witness of my marriage—Mr. Grower was!”
“Marriage?”
“Yes. With Mr. Farfrae. O Michael! I am already his wife. We were married this week at Port-Bredy. There were reasons against our doing it here. Mr. Grower was a witness because he happened to be at Port-Bredy at the time.”