“Let me have a line tomorrow morning to the Piedmont Hotel whether to expect you there at 7 o’clock.

“Yours affectionately,

“Jolyon Forsyte.”

“Let me have a line tomorrow morning to the Piedmont Hotel whether to expect you there at 7 o’clock.

“Yours affectionately,

“Jolyon Forsyte.”

She would understand that he just wanted to give her a little pleasure; for the idea that she should guess he had this itch to see her was instinctively unpleasant to him; it was not seemly that one so old should go out of his way to see beauty, especially in a woman.