"If I 'm not frank, it 's for the first time in my life.

Since you know so much about my real reason, let me hear it! No, stop!" he suddenly added, "I won't trouble you.

You are right, I have a motive.

On the twenty-fourth of June Miss Light is to be married.

I take an immense interest in all that concerns her, and I wish to be present at her wedding." "But you said the other day at Saint Peter's that it was by no means certain her marriage would take place." "Apparently I was wrong: the invitations, I am told, are going out." Rowland felt that it would be utterly vain to remonstrate, and that the only thing for him was to make the best terms possible.