There was every prospect, the game being over, that Lady Lundie would be free.
Anne brought the interview to its crisis, without wasting a moment more.
"Mr.Geoffrey Delamayn," she said.

"You have bargained for a private marriage, and I have consented.

Are you, or are you not, ready to marry me on your own terms ?" "Give me a minute to think!" "Not an instant.

Once for all, is it Yes, or No ?" He couldn't say "Yes," even then.

But he said what was equivalent to it.
He asked, savagely, "Where is the inn ?" She put her arm in his, and whispered, rapidly, "Pass the road on the right that leads to the railway.