You will return to America before long, I presume ?" "I'm sure I don't know.

We may stay a year or no." "Then the wedding is not a thing of the immediate future ?" "Oh, yes--that is, I mean, certainly not." "Pardon me for asking so many questions.

It is very rude of me." She said it so penitently that Hugh, unable to find words, could only wave his hands in deprecation.

"Isn't it a perfect evening ?" she went on, turning to the sea.

The light breeze blew the straying raven hair away from her temples, leaving the face clearly chiselled out of the night's inkiness.