She sat up instead with her hands clasped round her knees and laughed like an elf.
Her wedding-ring caught the moonlight, and the boy leaned forward with a frown.
"Take that thing off, won't you, just for to-night?
I hate to think you're married.

You're not, you know.

We're in fairyland, and married people never go there.

The fairies will turn you out if they see it." Very gently he inserted one finger between her clasped ones and began to draw the emblem off.
Nan made no resistance whatever.

She only sat and laughed.