"Ah, you mean there isn't any for US!" She met his look for a minute as if it perhaps a little too much imputed a selfishness, a concern, at any cost, for their own surface.

Then she might have been deciding that their own surface was, after all, what they had most to consider.

"Not," she said with dignity, "if we properly keep our heads." She appeared even to signify that they would begin by keeping them now.

This was what it was to have at last a constituted basis.

"Do you remember what you said to me that night of my first REAL anxiety--after the Foreign Office party ?" "In the carriage--as we came home ?" Yes--he could recall it.