There,
don't worry any more about the matter. You ought to have told me
of your troubles before, but as I have forgiven you, there is no
more to be said. In six months I shall become Mrs. Hope, and
meanwhile I can hold my own against any inconvenience that my
father may cause me."
"But--" He rose and began to remonstrate, anxious to abase
himself still further before this angel of a maiden.
She placed her hand over his mouth. "Not another word, or I
shall box your ears, sir--that is, I shall exercise the
privilege of a wife before I become one. And now," she slipped
her arm within his, "let us go in and see the arrival of the
precious mummy."
"Oh, it has arrived then."
"Not here exactly. My father expects it at three o'clock."
"It is now a quarter to," said Archie, consulting his watch. "As
I have been to London all yesterday I did not know that The Diver
had arrived at Pierside, How is Bolton?"
Lucy wrinkled her brows. "I am rather worried over Sidney," she
said in an anxious voice, "and so is my father. He had not
appeared."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well," she looked at the ground in a pondering manner, "my
father got a letter from Sidney yesterday afternoon, saying that
the ship with the mummy and himself on board had arrived about
four o'clock.
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