You must speak to him to-night.' Rodman mused.
'Why shouldn't you ?' resumed the girl eagerly, in a tone as unlike that she used to Mr.Keene as well could be.

She was in earnest; her eyes never moved from her companion's face; her lips trembled.

'Why should you put it off?
I can't see why we keep it a secret.

Dick can't have a word to say against it; you know he can't.

Tell him to-night after dinner.