And remember that I will have no mischief-making." "At thy command--" "Oh, cease acting, and take Sophie to her carriage." Two hours later, Delia Gasgoyne sat in her bedroom wondering at Gaston's abstraction during the drive home.

Yet she had a proud elation at his success, and a happy tear came to her eye.
Meanwhile Gaston was supping with his uncle.

Ian was in excellent spirits: brilliant, caustic, genial, suggestive.

After a little while Gaston rose to the temper of his host.

Already the scene in the Commons was fading from him, and when Ian proposed Paris immediately, he did not demur.