Rest and change--imperative! But--not a word to Lettie, Bent.

Talk her round--get it arranged.

I shall feel safer--you understand ?" Bent was full of good nature, and though he understood to the full--it was a natural thing, this anxiety of a father for his only child.

He promised to talk seriously to Lettie at once about an early wedding.

And that night he told Brereton of what had happened, and asked him if he knew how special licences can be got, and Brereton informed him of all he knew on that point--and kept silence about one which to him was becoming deeply and seriously important..