"Of course you'll go, unless--" she smiled a trifle maliciously--"you mean me to go alone, as I certainly shall if you are going to be tiresome about it.
You wouldn't like me to do that, I suppose ?" Olga gazed at her helplessly.

"Violet, what am I to say to you?
How could you and I go off for a whole day with that detestable man?
Why, it--it would start everyone talking!" "My dear, no one will know," said Violet with composure.

"Haven't you sworn to keep it a dead secret?
He won't talk and neither shall I.So, you see, it's all perfectly safe.

Not that there would be anything improper about it in any case.

He is as old as you and me put together,--older I should say." "Oh, but he's such a fiend!" burst forth Olga.