"If the reason or reasons which command my silence should ever be removed—mind, I do not seek to know what they are—you will yourself——"
"What?" she asked, blushing sweetly.
"You will yourself—tell me so."
She recovered her composure and gave him her hand.
"If at any time I can listen to you, I will tell you so. Does that content you?"
Certainly not, but there was no more to be got; therefore Harry was fain to be contented whether he would or not. And this was only one of a hundred little skirmishes in which he endeavored to capture an advanced fort or prepared to lay the siege in form. And always he was routed with heavy loss.
"And now," she went on, "we will get back to our professor."
"Yes. I am to work two extra hours a day that he may go about in the luxury of eighteen shillings a week. This it is to be one of the horny-handed. What is the professor to do first?"
"Let us," she said, "find him and secure his services."
It has been seen that the professor was already come to the period of waist-tightening, which naturally follows a too continued succession of banyan-days.