The Rodneys were in Paris at the time, however, and they had asked me to join them for a fortnight in the Tyrol.

When I said that I was off for a visit with the--with you, I mean--they insisted that you all should come too.

They are connections, in a way, don't you see.

So we accepted.

And here we are." "You don't, by any chance, happen to be engaged to be married, or anything of that sort," he ventured.