Ethne gave it to him at once very simply.
"I am engaged to Colonel Durrance," she said.

It was her fear that Durrance already suspected that no stronger feeling than friendship attached her to him.

If once he heard that the fault which broke her engagement to Harry Feversham had been most bravely atoned, there could be no doubt as to the course which he would insist upon pursuing.

He would strip himself of her, the one thing left to him, and that she was stubbornly determined he should not do.

She was bound to him in honour, and it would be a poor way of manifesting her joy that Harry Feversham had redeemed his honour if she straightway sacrificed her own.
Captain Willoughby pursed up his lips and whistled.
"Engaged to Jack Durrance!" he exclaimed.