Already he heard himself pronouncing a blessing over the pair--and they would make the best of it.

With characteristic dispatch he decided that the marriage should take place the first Monday after Finlay's return.

That would give them time to take a day or two in Toronto, perhaps, and get back for Finlay's Wednesday prayer meeting.

"Or I could take it off his hands," said Dr Drummond to himself.

"That would free them till the end of the week." Solicitude increased in him that the best should be made of it; after all, for a long time they had been making the worst.