I do not wish to play billiards.

Draw that chair up to the fire and talk to me." It was of all things what I wished to avoid that night.

But there was no escape.

I obeyed her.
"What your brother has told me is, I presume, no secret," I said.

"I am to wish you happiness, am I not ?" She looked up at me in quick surprise.
"Did Blenavon tell you--" "That you had promised to marry Colonel Mostyn Ray.