"What will your mother say? Will she be surprised?"
"She'll be delighted, for my sake, and her own! At the bottom of her
heart she has always longed to be with her girl. And she's prepared.
She recognised the signs."
"As Charmion did in me. Why? Do we show it in our faces?"
"Of course we do. Why not? Love's a new sense, a new life. If one has
any expression at all it _must_ show. I've gone about feeling as if I
were labelled `Evelyn Wastneys. By express route,' for a year past!
Now I've got you! You're coming back to take care of me at the `Hall'!"
I rather liked the idea of myself as mistress of that old house! With
my head on his shoulder I devoted several moments to the consideration
of how I should arrange the drawing-room. It was amazing that I could
not conjure up one pang of regret for dear "Pastimes!"
"There's a lot to be done first," I told him. "Two homes to break up.
I shall have to find new tenants."
"What about General Underwood for `Pastimes'?" he asked.