Let me go, Eileen"-- gently detaching her fingers, which left her hands lying in both of his.
She said, looking up at him: "If you go--if you go--whatever time you return--no matter what hour--knock at my door.

Do you promise?
I shall be awake.

Do you promise ?" "Yes," he said with a trace of impatience--the only hint of his anger at the prospect of the duty before him.
So she went away with Nina and Austin and Boots; and Selwyn turned back, sauntering quietly toward the table where already the occupants had apparently forgotten him and the episode in the riotous gaiety increasing with the accession of half a dozen more men.
When Selwyn approached, Neergard saw him first, stared at him, and snickered; but he greeted everybody with smiling composure, nodding to those he knew--a trifle more formally to Mrs.Ruthven--and, coolly pulling up a chair, seated himself beside Gerald.
"Boots has driven home with the others," he said in a low voice; "I'm going back in the motor-boat with you.

Don't worry about Austin.

Are you ready ?" The boy had evidently let the wine alone, or else fright had sobered him, for he looked terribly white and tired: "Yes," he said, "I'll go when you wish.