Her blood tingled, and she could have struck him for the faint smile, almost of amusement, which for a moment parted his lips.

He was already on his feet, collecting their belongings.
"Can you help me," he asked, "with reference to the explanations which it will be necessary to make to your aunt and to my own people?
We left this morning, if you remember, in order that you might visit the Russian Embassy and announce our betrothal.

You are, I believe, under an engagement to return and stay with my mother." "I cannot think about those things to-day," she replied.

"You may take it that I am tired and that you had business.

You know my address.