CHAPTER SIXWhen Lord Challoner had finished speaking, he rose to his feet.
“I think this is something we should talk over after you have rested,” he announced, his manner chilly.
He paused a moment and then added,
“I suggest, Verna, that you now go and change your clothes and perhaps have a hot bath, then you and I will sit down and discuss the matter together later on today.”
Before Michael could say anything, he had turned and walked from the room.
For a moment both Michael and Verna were silent.
Then Verna gave a little gasp,
“Papa is going to be difficult, I know he is going to be difficult! But promise you will go on loving me?”
“For ever,” he vowed. “If the worst comes to the worst we will run away and get married in the first Church we come to.”
He smiled at her as he add
