Till then he had been too proud to ask what had become of Burnamy, though he had wondered, but now he looked about and said impatiently, "I hope that young man isn't going to keep us waiting." Agatha was pale and worn with sleeplessness, but she said firmly, "He isn't going, papa.

I will tell you in the train.

August will see to the tickets and the baggage." August conspired with the traeger to get them a first-class compartment to themselves.

But even with the advantages of this seclusion Agatha's confidences to her father were not full.

She told her father that her engagement was broken for reasons that did not mean anything very wrong in Mr.Burnamy but that convinced her they could never be happy together.