But I wouldn't do that." Lorna promptly recovered from her amaze.

"Well, it's a damn lucky thing you didn't take her up on that marriage stuff." There was a glint of dark youthful passion in Lorna's face.

Lane felt rise in him a desire to bid her sharply to omit slang and profanity from the conversation.

But the desire faded before his bewilderment.
All had suffered change.

What had he come home to?
There was no clear answer.