Mathilde and Pete were aware of a common feeling of guilt, not that they were concealing the cups, though there was something of that accusation in Pringle's expression, but because the pause between them was so obvious.
So Mathilde said suddenly: "Pringle, Mr.Wayne and I are engaged to be married." "Indeed, Miss ?" said Pringle, with a smile; and so seldom was this phenomenon seen to take place that Wayne noted for the first time that Pringle's teeth were false.

"I'm delighted to hear it; and you, too, sir.
This is a bad world to go through alone." "Do you approve of marriage, Pringle ?" said Wayne.
The cups, revealing themselves one by one, were secured as Pringle answered: "In my class of life, sir, we don't give much time to considering what we approve of and disapprove of.

But young people are all alike when they're first engaged, always wondering how it is going to turn out, and hoping the other party won't know that they're wondering.

But when you get old, and you look back on all the mistakes and the disadvantages and the sacrifices, you'll find that you won't be able to imagine that you could have gone through it with any other person--in spite of her faults," he added almost to himself.
When he was gone, Pete and Mathilde turned and kissed each other.
"When we get old--" they murmured.
They really believed that it could never happen to them.
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