“Am I to understand that I can find her on Mrs. Deering's doorstep?”
“If you look hard enough,” said Norma.
He took her hand and shook it with the air of a man concluding a bargain.
“I felt sure of it,” he said. “I intended from the first to marry you. I shall ever be your most devoted servant.'”
“I make one condition,” she said.
“Name it.”
“You don't enter this house, and I sail with you to-morrow.”
“Certainly.”
“What train shall I catch and from what station shall I start?”
“The ten o'clock from Waterloo.”