He was a man who did things, and she wondered what Helen, who was something of a romantic dreamer, would think of him.

Then she reflected with a touch of amusement that he would probably find the errand his friend had given him embarrassing.
"You don't look forward to seeing the Daltons to-morrow," she remarked.
"That's so," Festing admitted.

"I didn't quite know what I'd undertaken when I gave my promise.

The thing looks worse in England.

In fact, it looks very nearly impossible just now." "But you are going ?" Festing spread out his hands.