"Why, made a burlesque. I tell you the book's a scream. You'll love it. But the really shrieking part of the whole jolly business is that Cappers think it's a serious effort. They take it to be a great sentimental story. That's why they want it so badly. Do you imagine they'd give sixpence for it if they thought it was a burlesque."
She looked at him through narrowed eyes. "Are you lying, Bish? "she asked.
"Lying? Lord, no! Do you think I'd lie to you on our wedding-day? I tell you the book's the wildest kind of a burlesque. If you don't believe me, let me read you some of it. I have a copy here; it's in my trunk. I'll get it." He darted out of the studio.
The last thing Chloë wanted to do was to go back to the Vicarage. She had, indeed, no faintest intention of doing so.
