I shall have seen her, and can then tell you when to present yourself.

And I suppose you can have the ceremony at the beginning of November ?" "Six whole weeks hence!" Lord Tancred said, protestingly.

"Must she get such heaps of clothes?
Can't it be sooner?
I wanted to be here for my Uncle Glastonbury's first shoot on the 2nd of November, and if we are only married then, we shall be off on a honeymoon.

You must come to that shoot, by-the-way, old boy, it is the pleasantest of the whole lot he has; one day at the partridges, and a dash at the pheasants; but he only asks the jolliest parties to this early one, for Ethelrida's birthday, and none of the bores." "It would give me great pleasure to do so," Francis Markrute said.

And he looked down so that Lord Tancred should not see the joy in his eyes.
Then they shook hands most heartily, and the newly made fiance said good-night, with the happy assurance in his ears that he might claim his bride in time to be back from a week's honeymoon for the Glastonbury shoot.
When he had gone Francis Markrute's first act was to sit down and write a four-figure check for the Cripple Children's Hospital: he believed in thankofferings.