"Well, when is it to be ?" "It ?" "Your marriage." "Oh, not for some time.

There's no hurry." It might have struck the practical Mr.Rushbrook that, even considered as a desirable business affair, the prospective completion of this contract provoked neither frank satisfaction nor conventional dissimulation on the part of the young lady, for he regarded her calm but slightly wearied expression fixedly.

But he only said: "Then I shall say nothing of this interview to Mr.Leyton ?" "As you please.

It really matters little.

Indeed, I suppose I was rather foolish in coming at all, and wasting your valuable time for nothing." She had risen, as if taking his last question in the significance of a parting suggestion, and was straightening her tall figure, preparatory to putting on her cloak.