"Why not?
You, too, Capitaine Rotherby,--you would come ?" "I would take you there," I answered, "and I would do my best, my very best, to keep you entertained." "I shall ask!" she exclaimed.

"To-night I shall ask." "Ask whom ?" I inquired.

"Louis ?" She shook her head.
"My uncle," she answered.
"You will not see him!" I exclaimed.
"He will telephone," she answered.

"He has promised." I reached over towards her and took her hands into mine.
"Felicia," I said boldly, "I am your friend.

The letter I have told you of should prove that.