Then Ida rose and faced the elder man.
"I think I would better tell you that I have promised to marry Mr.
Weston when things are propitious," she said.

She looked around at Weston with a smile.

"At least, I suppose I have." "Ah!" said Stirling, dryly, "the situation rather suggested it.

Mr.
Weston has, no doubt, something to say to me." Ida glanced at Weston and slipped out of the room..