101/106 And only a few moments ago you reproached me for not being serious. I wonder who is the serious person of us two now." She smiled faintly and in a friendly tone, from which I concluded at once that she did not mean to show me the girl's letter, she said that undoubtedly the letter disclosed an understanding between Captain Anthony and Flora de Barral. "An engagement is an understanding." "There is no engagement--not yet," she said decisively. "That letter, Mr.Marlow, is couched in very vague terms. That is why--" I interrupted her without ceremony. |