Chapter 18
"I WONDERED if you would find that out," she said, Jimmy's mind was incapable of receiving the news.
"You are May Liddiart— you are— you are Rex's wife, you're Dora Walton?" he asked almost incoherently.
She nodded.
"Sit down, Jimmy. I ought to have told you all this before, but I was afraid of father knowing," she said. "Rex was very worried about these stupid letters he had received, and he feared that something might happen before we were married. It got so on his mind that he asked me if I would advance the day of the wedding. I couldn't do that; I knew exactly how father would rave— he is rather an autocrat," she said with a faint smile. "Then he suggested we should be married secretly in his own district, and that the marriage should be repeated on the following day, w
