Agatha's look was one of sheer surprise, for Coralie walked up to the table.
"Choosing engravings, Miss Thesiger ?" she said, with an easy smile.

"I must ask you to give me your attention for a short time.

Perhaps you will not think the engravings of much importance after that." She declined the chair Sir John placed for her with the hauteur of a grand duchess.

As she stood there, calmly surveying us, she looked the most beautiful yet the most determined of women.
"May I ask," she said, "the exact date fixed for the marriage ?" Sir John answered her: "The 26th of December, mademoiselle." "May I ask," she said, "what Sir Edgar has thought of doing for me?
Doubtless Lady Thesiger will have advised him.

This has been my home for many years, and is my only home now.