Then he stood gravely away from her.
"There," he said, "that is the last time that I may kiss you before I have told you what it is that I have come here to say.

But first may I go up to your mother for a moment ?" "Yes," Margaret said, "if you will not be very long.

I do not think that I can have much more patience." Then she added more slowly, gazing into his face, "Rupert said last night that you would have something to tell me to-day.

I have been waiting all day for you to come.

But Rupert was his old self last night, and he talked to mother and has made her happy again.