Almost thee persuades me to be a Quaker now," she added.

"And perhaps I shall be, too," she went on, her eyes fixed on the crowd passing by, Eglington among them.
David saw Eglington also, and moved forward with her.
"We shall meet in Hamley," she said composedly, as she saw her husband leave the crush and come towards her.

As Eglington noticed David, a curious enigmatical glance flashed from his eyes.

He came forward, however, with outstretched hand.
"I am sorry I was not at the Foreign Office when you called to-day.
Welcome back to England, home--and beauty." He laughed in a rather mirthless way, but with a certain empressement, conscious, as he always was, of the onlookers.

"You have had a busy time in Egypt ?" he continued cheerfully, and laughed again.
David laughed slightly, also, and Hylda noticed that it had a certain resemblance in its quick naturalness to that of her husband.
"I am not sure that we are so busy there as we ought to be," David answered.