"I shouldn't wonder!--I shouldn't wonder at all.

Hooray!--we're getting nearer and nearer to something." But he knew that still another step was at hand--an unpleasant, painful step--when, on getting back to Bent's, an hour later, Bent told him that Lettie had been cajoled into fixing the day of the wedding, and that the ceremony was to take place with the utmost privacy that day week..