I suppose--business----" The Colonel said, ponderously careless: "I imagine that he is likely to come in the late afternoon--when he does come." "I don't know.

He is in business." "It doesn't keep him after three o'clock at his office." She looked up surprised: "Doesn't it ?" And her eyes asked instinctively: "How did you know ?" But the Colonel sat silent again, his head lowered and partly averted as though to turn his good ear toward her.

Clearly his mind already dwelt on other matters, she was thinking; but she was mistaken.
"When he comes," said Colonel Arran slowly, "will you have the kindness to say to him that Colonel Arran will be glad to renew the acquaintance ?" "Yes.

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