Its mate has arrived by special messenger, but the pair remains still broken.

Do you come to-night--this afternoon ?" "I wish that I might," said I.
"Why be churlish with me ?" she demanded.

"Did I not call at your request upon a gentleman in a red nightcap at two in the morning?
And for your sake--and the sake of sport--did I not almost promise him many things?
Come now, am I not to see you and explain all that; and hear you explain all this ?" She made a little _moue_ at me.
"It would be my delight, Madam, but there are two reasons--" "One, then." "I am going to Montreal to-night, for one." She gave me a swift glance, which I could not understand.
"So ?" she said.

"Why so soon ?" "Orders," said I briefly.

"But perhaps I may not obey orders for once.
There is another reason." "And that one ?" "I am to be married at six." I turned to enjoy her consternation.