She stared at a big cloud where the sun had been.

Then she replied shortly, "I've forgotten too." 4.MR.AND MRS.

DOVE.
Of course he knew--no man better--that he hadn't a ghost of a chance, he hadn't an earthly.

The very idea of such a thing was preposterous.
So preposterous that he'd perfectly understand it if her father--well, whatever her father chose to do he'd perfectly understand.

In fact, nothing short of desperation, nothing short of the fact that this was positively his last day in England for God knows how long, would have screwed him up to it.