"Now, that's awfully kind of you.

Do you know, if YOU tell me I ought to stay in England, I've half a mind...

I'll cable over this very day and refuse the appointment." Daphne flushed once more.

"Oh, please don't!" she exclaimed, looking frightened.

"I shall be quite distressed if a stray word of mine should debar you from accepting a good offer of a secretaryship." "Why, your least wish--" the young man began--then checked himself hastily--"must be always important," he went on, in a different voice, "to everyone of your acquaintance." Daphne rose hurriedly.