Probably there was something in his face which told his mind, for she invited him by a smile into the room she was entering.
'I congratulate you on your performance,' he said mechanically, when she pushed to the door.
'Do you really think it was well done ?' She drew near him with a sociable air.
'It was startlingly done--the part from "Romeo and Juliet" pre-eminently so.' 'Do you think I knew he was going to introduce it, or do you think I didn't know ?' she said, with that gentle sauciness which shows itself in the loved one's manner when she has had a triumphant evening without the lover's assistance.
'I think you may have known.' 'No,' she averred, decisively shaking her head.

'It took me as much by surprise as it probably did you.

But why should I have told!' Without answering that question Somerset went on.

'Then what he did at the end of his gag was of course a surprise also.' 'He didn't really do what he seemed to do,' she serenely answered.
'Well, I have no right to make observations--your actions are not subject to my surveillance; you float above my plane,' said the young man with some bitterness.

'But to speak plainly, surely he--kissed you ?' 'No,' she said.