“And so your sister came here to help me. But now I have asked her to marry me.”
‘Was that all he was going to say?’ Aria wondered. She looked at him and knew by the expression in his eyes and the twist of his lips that that was exactly all he did intend to say.
“This was rather sudden, wasn’t it?” Charles asked.
“My dear fellow! In my country we make up our minds very quickly,” Dart Huron said.
Charles turned towards Aria.
“Didn’t you think,” he began a little ponderously, “that it would have been best to come home first to tell me that you intended to announce your engagement?”
“But I didn’t intend to announce it,” Aria answered. “It was just – ”
“It was just the Press,” Dart Huron interposed. “They rushed us before we were really ready for them. We are sorry, very sorry, that thi
