Chapter 28

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌⁠The dinner is over—the first tete-a-tete dinner that John and Peggy have ever shared. To dine tete-a-tete with her in her own still house, amid her old and homely surroundings, with the summer evening tossing them in its lavish perfumes through the wide-opened windows, would have seemed to him, a month ago, the realisation of his fairest and most hopeless dream. But in their translation into the b