You will understand everything then, and I believe that you will be still willing to ask us down to your country home." "And if I am, Felicia ?" I asked.
"We shall come," she murmured.

"You know that.

Good-bye, Austen! I must fly.

If Madame Muller finds that I have left the room I shall be a prisoner for a week." I opened the door.

Even then I would have kept her, if only for a moment; but just as I bent down we heard the sound of footsteps outside, and she hurried away.