not been for one thing," she said, a faint flush coming to her
cheek, although her eyes looked unfalteringly into his. "Will
you join us in the dining car? I will have a place prepared for
you at our table."

"Thank you. You are very good. I shall join you as soon as I am
presentable."

"We are to be honored, sir," said the old gentleman, but in such
a way that Grenfall had a distinct feeling that it was he who was
to be honored. Aunt Yvonne smiled graciously, and he took his
departure. While Hedrick was dressing the jagged little cut,
Grenfall complacently surveyed the patient in the mirror
opposite, and said to himself a hundred times: "You lucky dog!
It was worth forty gashes like this. By Jove, she's divine!"

In a fever of eager haste he bathed and attired himself for
dinner, the imperturbable Hedrick assisting. One query filled
the American's mind: "I wonder if I am to sit beside her." And
then: "I have sat beside her! There can never again be such
delight!"

It was seven o'clock before his rather unusual toilet was
completed. "See if they have gone to the diner, Hedrick," he
said to the man-servant, who departed ceremoniously.

"I don't know why he should be so damned polite," observed Lorry,
gazing wonderingly after him. "I'm not a king. That reminds me.
I must introduce myself. She doesn't know me from Adam."