He was standing up with the telegram crumpled in his hand. “You poor little girl!” he cried. There was more to be told, and this was as good a time as any. The Ferringhalls are of course without any pretence at family, but Sir John is a very rich man, and will be able to give Annabel a very enviable position in the world. She did not question or analyze the craving; she took the plunge joyously. Jack fell on his knees beside her. In stature, he was short and stumpy; in person, corpulent; and in countenance, sleek, snub-nosed, and demure. Only one thing emerged with any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage was an experience to be strenuously evaded.
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