Marriage--that is another thing.

The approaches to wedlock are a subject of honourable convention, not to be confused with the trivialities of romance.
"I'm going down to Liverpool," he said, presently, "to meet Trafford Romaine." It gratified him to see the gleam in Miss Derwent's eyes the' announcement had its hoped-for effect.

Trafford Romaine, the Atlas of our Colonial world; the much-debated, the universally interesting champion of Greater British interests! She knew, of course, that Arnold Jacks was his friend; no one could talk with Mr.Jacks for half an hour without learning that; but the off-hand mention of their being about to meet this very day had an impressiveness for Irene.
"I saw that he was coming to England." "From the States--yes.

He has been over there on a holiday--merely a holiday.

Of course, the papers have tried to find a meaning in it.