"But I'm half asleep." "But I think you understand better than most people," she answered, and sat down on a little chair placed beside a big leather chair so that Hewet had to sit down beside her.
"Well ?" he said.

He yawned openly, and lit a cigarette.

He could not believe that this was really happening to him.

"What is it ?" "Are you really sympathetic, or is it just a pose ?" she demanded.
"It's for you to say," he replied.

"I'm interested, I think." He still felt numb all over and as if she was much too close to him.
"Any one can be interested!" she cried impatiently.