But mind, I think you are acting very foolishly, and if you are disappointed afterwards, you must not blame ME." "I take the risk of my bargain," he said, releasing her hand, and leaning against the door as he took out his pocket diary.

"You will have to take the risk of yours, which I hope may not prove the worse of the two.

This is the seventeenth of June.

What date before the twenty-fourth of July will suit you ?" "You mean the twenty-fourth of July next year, I presume ?" "No; I mean this year.

I am going abroad on that date, married or not, to attend a conference at Geneva, and I want you to come with me.