I really want to be amused." "I will make a suggestion, then," he remarked as they took their places.
"I don't know whether you will find it amusing, though.

Why shouldn't we do like so many of our friends, and get married ?" She stared at him for a moment.

Then she laughed heartily.
"Hugh," she exclaimed, "I can see through you! You've suddenly realised that this is your chance to escape a ceremony and a reception, and all that sort of thing.

I call it a most cowardly suggestion." "It rather appeals to me," he persisted.

"It may be," he added, dropping his voice a little, "because you are looking particularly charming this evening, or it may be--" She looked at him curiously.
"Go on, please," she murmured.
"Or it may be," he repeated, "a man's desire to be absolutely sure of the thing he wants more than anything else in the world." There was a moment's silence.