‘Yes, the same.’
‘I began to be afraid that I had been changed into somebody else. Well, now that the skirmish is over, now that the fortress has capitulated, suppose we settle the terms of victory. How soon are we to be married?’
‘Married! You take my breath away. You might be one of those freebooters of the middle ages who used to hang their prisoners the moment they caught them.’
‘We are prepared to grant the prisoner a reasonable time to make her peace with the world.’
Madame De Vigne laid a hand gently on his sleeve. ‘Dear friend, let us talk of this another time,’ she said.
‘Another time then let it be,’ he answered as he lifted her hand to his lips. ‘Meanwhile’——
‘Yes, meanwhile?’
‘I may as well proceed to give you a few lessons in the art of making love.’
‘It may be that the pupil knows as much of such matters as her teacher.’
‘That has to be proved. You shall have your first lesson to-morrow.’