You must not think I am going to let you
stay home and have Gussie abuse you while you make up a lot of finery. Be
my little wife in earnest, darling, and whatever you want you can get just
as easily after you are married as before. I never could see the sense in
women making up such a quantity of new clothes just before their marriage;
it always looks to me as if they were afraid their future husbands would
not give them what they required when they were married."
"Let me speak to your mother to-day, Dexie, dear," he added, "and I will
tell her that it was your father's wish that we should not delay our
marriage; and I must insist that you be used with more consideration. I
really cannot let matters go on without some protest; it would not be right
for me to allow it, either."
"Very well, Guy, do as you think best; they cannot make it much more
uncomfortable than it is at present."
But in this Dexie found she was mistaken.
Mrs. Sherwood listened to Guy's manly and straightforward declaration in
silence, though her raised eyebrows showed something of her surprise as
well as displeasure. She admitted she had no right to refuse her permission
for their marriage if her father approved of it, but it was "quite like
Dexie to keep her in ignorance of the true state of affairs.
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