She heard him go down the hall, heard the front door open and close.

She sat and looked in a dazed sort of way at the empty space upon her finger.

Then she rose and went into the drawing-room, where her father and mother were still reading.

She held out her hand.
"Mother," she announced, "I am not engaged to Major Thomson any more." The Admiral laid down his newspaper.
"Damned good job, too!" he declared.

"That young fellow Granet's worth a dozen of him.