CHAPTER VIIOn this vague and rather foolish footing matters remained. Captain Hornby and Elsa went back to their work on the following day and continued to meet a great deal in London whenever they could, but the subject of an engagement was not mentioned again. Each preferred the company of the other to that of any other friend or acquaintance, but neither seemed to wish to formalize their relationship. Elsa’s parents knew nothing about it and London was far too busy to pay attention to them. Even that gossip Geoffrey Harvey, now happily back at the Ministry of Red Tape and Sealing Wax and sharing a flat with his friend Peter, got so used to seeing them about together that he stopped noticing them at all, and as for his sister, she was safely in the Censorship, though this will not really
