I should think your affection not worth the having unless you agreed to come back with me to Trufal this evening, where we could be married by licence on Monday morning.

And then no Mr.David Heddegan or anybody else could get you away from me.' 'I must go home by the Tuesday boat,' she faltered.

'What would they think if I did not come ?' 'You could go home by that boat just the same.

All the difference would be that I should go with you.

You could leave me on the quay, where I'd have a smoke, while you went and saw your father and mother privately; you could then tell them what you had done, and that I was waiting not far off; that I was a school-master in a fairly good position, and a young man you had known when you were at the Training College.