I asked you to wait for my promise for a little while, until I could be quite sure you didn't think of Miss de Renzie as--some people fancied you did.

If you wanted to see her, I said you must go, and you laughed at the idea.

Yet the very next morning, by the first train, you start." "Only because I am obliged to," I hazarded in spite of the Foreign Secretary and his precautions.

But I was punished for my lack of them by making matters worse instead of better for myself.
"Obliged to!" she echoed.

"Then there's something you must settle with her, before you can be--free." The guard was shutting the carriage doors.