I confess I do not understand why you are still in doubt--if you have really engaged yourself to him." "I suppose I am in for it," said Agatha.

"I feel as if there were some fatal objection, if I could only remember what it is.

I wish I had never seen him." Sir Charles was puzzled.

"I do not understand ladies' ways in these matters," he said.

"However, as there seems to be no doubt that you and Trefusis are engaged, I shall of course say nothing that would make it unpleasant for him to visit here; but I must say that he has--to say the least--been inconsiderate to me personally.