"Derek?" he said.

"Derek Underhill. The man I'm engaged to marry."

There was a moment's silence.

"Oh!" said Wally thoughtfully. "The man you're engaged to marry?
Yes, I see!"

He raised his glass again, and drank its contents quickly.


2.

Jill looked at her companion anxiously. Recent events had caused her
completely to forget the existence of Lady Underhill. She was always
so intensely interested in what she happened to be doing at the
moment that she often suffered these temporary lapses of memory. It
occurred to her now,--too late, as usual,--that the Savoy Hotel was
the last place in London where she should have come to supper with
Wally. It was the hotel where Lady Underhill was staying. She
frowned. Life had suddenly ceased to be careless and happy, and had
become a problem-ridden thing, full of perplexity and
misunderstandings.

"What shall I do?"

Wally Mason started at the sound of her voice. He appeared to be deep
in thoughts of his own.