With this document he returned to Hawk's Hall, and there showed it to Isobel.
"And when the month is up ?" she asked, looking at him.
"Then I suppose I shall have to join my regiment, unless they send me somewhere else." "A month is a very short time," she went on, still looking at him and turning a little pale.
"Yes, dear, but lots can happen in it, as we found out in France.

For instance," he added, with a little hesitation, "we can get married, that is, if you wish." "You know very well, Godfrey, that I have wished it for quite ten years." "And you know very well, Isobel, that I have wished it--well, ever since I understood what marriage was.

How about to-morrow ?" he exclaimed, after a pause.
She laughed, and shook her head.
"I believe, Godfrey, that some sort of license is necessary, and it is past post time.

Also it would look scarcely decent; all these people would laugh at us.

Also, as there is a good deal of property concerned, I must make some arrangements." "What arrangements ?" he asked.
She laughed again.