'I was surprised!' I exclaimed.
'I am sure I don't know why,' she answered, with a peculiar kind of laugh.
'Is Major Ruston here?' I asked.
'No,' she said; 'you won't see him until Captain Knowlton brings you to the church to-morrow. It is to be a very quiet wedding, and we shall start for India the next day.'
When Rogers returned to fetch me an hour later, Aunt Marion put her arms around my neck and kissed me a great many times, telling me to be good, and try in every way to please Captain Knowlton—advice which I considered very unnecessary.
After the wedding ceremony the following day, we went to an hotel, where the four of us had luncheon, and, later on, Captain Knowlton stood on the pavement without his hat, and took a white satin slipper from his pocket, throwing it after the carriage as Major and Mrs. Ruston were driven away.
"I shook hands with the three in turn."
'I don't think much of Major Ruston,' I remarked as I walked to the Albany with Captain Knowlton.