"But when you are in love with one another, impossibilities fade--and I was masterful." "You were that," said Lord Crosland with conviction.
"Poor Pamela! She was wretched at having to keep it from her father; and I was sorry enough.

But it had to be done; when you are eighteen, and in love with one another, twenty-one seems ages away, don't you know ?" "Of course." "And once done, I don't believe--honestly, I don't believe that she regretted it," said Sir Tancred; and his sombre eyes were shining.
"Heavens, how happy we were!--for four months.

But as you'll learn, if ever you have it, happiness is a deucedly expensive thing.

I paid a price for it--I _did_ pay a price." And he shivered.

"At the end of four months it came out, and it was all up." "Then that was why Vane gave up coaching, sold Stanley House, and went abroad," said Lord Crosland quickly.