But I do not think that she was quite prepared for what I asked her.
"When are you going to marry Colonel Ray ?" She looked at me quickly, almost furtively, and I saw that her cheeks were flushed.

There was a look in her eyes, too, which I could not fathom.
"The date is not decided yet," she said.

"You know there is some talk of trouble in Egypt, and if so he might have to leave at a moment's notice." "It will not be, at any rate, before the autumn, then ?" I persisted.
"No!" I drew a little breath of relief.

I was reckless whether she heard it or not.

Suddenly she paused.
"Who is that ?" she asked.
I recognized him at once--a small grey figure, standing on the top of a sandhill a little way off, and regarding us steadily.