"Good-bye," she said.
Mrs.Adair hastily interrupted.
"Colonel Durrance has gone home, but he dines with us to-night.

I came out to tell you that, but I am glad that I came, for it gives me the opportunity to ask your friend to lunch with us if he will." Captain Willoughby, who already had one leg over the bows of his boat, withdrew it with alacrity.
"It's awfully good of you, Mrs.Adair," he began.
"It is very kind indeed," Ethne continued, "but Captain Willoughby has reminded me that his leave is very short, and we have no right to detain him.

Good-bye." Captain Willoughby gazed with a vain appeal upon Miss Eustace.

He had travelled all night from London, he had made the scantiest breakfast at Kingsbridge, and the notion of lunch appealed to him particularly at that moment.

But her eyes rested on his with a quiet and inexorable command.