It might be thought unusual if I went alone." She stared at him in sudden, amazed anger.
"Eustace!" she exclaimed.

"How can you be so cruel, so cold-blooded, so--so heartless?
How can you expect such a thing of me--to sit at table and hear them all talking about it, and his chances discussed?
I couldn't--I couldn't!" He did not press the point.

Perhaps he realised that her nerves in their present condition would prove wholly unequal to such a strain.
"Very well," he said quietly at length.

"I will send a note to excuse us both." "I don't see why you should stay at home," Audrey said, turning to the door.

"I would far rather be alone." He did not explain his motive, and she went out of his presence with a sensation of relief.