"Yes.

Then it's all right." "She IS fond of him, thank God!" said Mrs.Brook.
He was before her now with the air of a man who had suddenly determined on a great blind leap.

"Do you know what he has done?
He wants me so to marry her that he has proposed a definite basis." Mrs.Brook got straight up.

"'Proposed'?
To HER ?" "No, I don't think he has said a word to Nanda--in fact I'm sure that, very properly, he doesn't mean to.

But he spoke to me on Sunday night at Mertle--I had a big talk with him there alone, very late, in the smoking-room." Mrs.Brook's stare was serious, and Vanderbank now went on as if the sound of his voice helped him to meet it.