"Yes, yes."

"It would mean so much to me. I should like you to know that there was noone in the chamber except myself listening to you."

"Quite so. But never mind that now, though."

He spoke in such a decided tone of voice that it seemed as if he wasdefending something from her. She could not comprehend for what reasonher request could have been distasteful to him, and she continued:

"So then it is settled: to-morrow at five o'clock in the evening atyour home?"

"Yes, I am curious to see whether you will like it there."