"Very good.

May we wait again to talk of it till she has done so ?" He showed, with his hands down in his pockets and his shoulders expressively up, a certain disappointment.
Soon enough, none the less, his gentleness was all back and his patience once more exemplary.

"Of course I give you time.

Especially," he smiled, "as it's time that I shall be spending with you.

Our keeping on together will help you perhaps to see.