It is nothing that will annoy you; at least I think not.

But it will keep till after breakfast.

I will come in again the moment breakfast is over." And so saying he left the room with a light step.
In the breakfast-parlour it seemed to him as though everybody was conscious of some important fact.

His mother's kiss was peculiarly solemn and full of solicitude; Aunt Letty smirked as though she was aware of something--something over and above the great Protestant tenets which usually supported her; and Mary had no joke to fling at him.
"Emmeline," he whispered, "you have told." "No, indeed," she replied.

But what mattered it?
Everybody would know now in a few minutes.