Will she permit his addresses?
Answer; this department.

For three weeks West had found this sort of thing delicious reading.

Best of all, he could detect in these messages nothing that was not open and innocent.

At their worst they were merely an effort to side-step old Lady Convention; this inclination was so rare in the British, he felt it should be encouraged.

Besides, he was inordinately fond of mystery and romance, and these engaging twins hovered always about that column.
So, while waiting for his strawberries, he smiled over the ungrammatical outburst of the young lady who had come to doubt the genuineness of him who called her Dearest.