Her woman's intuition divined a
sequel to the afternoon's drama. Some of it she had already learned.
For, going earlier into Viviette's room, she had found her white and
shaken, still disordered in hair and dress as Dick had left her; and
Viviette had sobbed on her bosom and told her with some incoherence that
the monkey had at last hit the lyddite shell in the wrong place, and
that it was all over with the monkey. So, before Austin spoke, she half
divined why he had summoned her.
Her heart throbbed painfully.
"Dick and I," said Austin, "have been talking of serious matters, and we
need your help."
She smiled wanly. "I'll do whatever I can, Austin."
"You said this afternoon you would do anything I asked you. Do you
remember?"
"Yes, I said so--and I meant it."
"You said it in reply to my question whether you would accept me if I
asked you to marry me."
Dick started from the sullen stupor into which he had fallen and
listened with perplexed interest.
"You are not quite right in your tenses, Austin," she remarked.
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