He conformed to her present programme; he had ventured to pronounce the word Siena the evening before, but he was careful not to pronounce it again.

She had her reasons for her own reserve; he wondered what they were, and it gave him a certain pleasure to wonder.

He enjoyed the consciousness of their having a secret together, and it became a kind of entertaining suspense to see how long she would continue to keep it.

For himself, he was in no hurry to let the daylight in; the little incident at Siena had been, in itself, a charming affair; but Miss Vivian's present attitude gave it a sort of mystic consecration.

He thought she carried it off very well--the theory that she had not seen him before; last evening she had been slightly confused, but now she was as self-possessed as if the line she had taken were a matter of conscience.