on't--it's
all right, Robert."

"Are you sure?"

"Quite sure. Our business is finished."

"All except one or two details which we may perhaps arrange later," said
Marston, who preserved a perfect suavity.

"How much later?" said Kitty. "_I'm_ not going to arrange anything more
to-night."

"To-morrow night."

"There won't be any to-morrow night--if you're going up to town."

"Well, then, perhaps if Mr. Lucy will excuse us, you will give me a
moment now. It seems a pity not to put things straight while you're
about it."

"You can't put things straight at eleven o'clock at night. My poor
head's all muddled and aching abominably."

"To-morrow morning, then."

"There will be no time to-morrow morning. Robert, has Jane gone to bed?"

"No, she's sitting up. She wants to speak to you."

"Will you bring her to me, please?"

He rose. When he had left the room she turned on Marston in a fury.

"Wilfrid, you're a beast, a perfect beast."

"A man of business, my dear Kitty, very often is. He's paid, you know,
for doing beastly things."

"They come easy to you."

"Is that all the thanks I get for playing up to you? I gave you every
point, too."

She raged dumbly.

"I can't congratulate you on your skill in the game. You'd have given
yourself away ten times over--if I hadn't stopped you."

"What are you waiting for now, then?"

"I have not said good night to your friend Mr. Lucy, nor to you."

"You can say good night to me now, and good bye. I shall not see you
again."

"Pardon me, you will see me to-morrow morning."

"No. Never again. I've done with you."

"My dear girl, you are absurd. Mr. Lucy is not going to marry you
to-morrow morning, is he?"

"Well?"

"And until he marries you, you haven't exactly done with me."

"I see. You want to remind me that the clothes on my back belong to
you."

He flushed painfully.

"I don't want to remind you of anything that may be unpleasant to you.
I'm only suggesting that in the circumstances--until you marry him--you
can hardly refuse to see me."

"Why should I see you? It'll make no difference."

"To me, none. To you it may possibly make a considerable difference.
There are some points you have evidently not thought of, which it would
be well for us to talk over before you think of marrying."

She capitulated.

"If I see you to-morrow, will you go now?"

"I will go, my dear Kitty, the precise moment I see fit. If I were you I
should wipe that ex