Oh, dear--_dear_!--how time flies! I must go and see what Philip is after." Delaine was left discontented.

He had come to press his suit, and he found a lady preoccupied.

Canada, it seemed, was to be his rival! Would he ever be allowed to get in a word edgewise?
Was there ever anything so absurd, so disconcerting?
He looked forward gloomily to a dull afternoon, in quest of fat cattle, with a car-full of unknown Canadians..