We will hope that he says yes, will we not ?" "He must say yes!" I declared.

"If he doesn't I'll find out where he is, somehow, and go and talk to him!" She shook her head.
"He is very much engaged," she said.

"He would not like you to find him out, nor would he have any time to talk to you." "Selling his coffee ?" I could not help saying.
"To-night, Capitaine Rotherby," she answered softly, "we do not talk of those things.

Tell me what else we shall do down at your brother's house ?" "We shall go for long walks," I told her.

"There are beautiful gardens there--a rose garden more than a hundred years old, and at the end of it a footpath which leads through a pine plantation and then down to the sea marshes.