We can't be engaged--until I have heard from Guy." He suppressed a short word of impatience.

"And suppose you don't hear ?" he asked.
She made a blind movement with her hands.

"Then---I give in." "You will marry me ?" he insisted.
"If you like," she answered drearily.

"I expect you will very soon get tired of me." "There's a remedy for everything," he answered jauntily.

"But we needn't consider that.