"Oh, I see what you mean--no, naturally not." "I thought that perhaps you might have been boy and girl together," dreamily.

"It so often happens." "It does," said Spence.

"But it didn't." "And is there no one--no friend, from whom you could naturally inquire?
You feel you wouldn't care to ask anyone ?" "Ask?
Good heavens, no--certainly not!" "Men are queer," said Desire naively.

"A woman would just simply have to ask." "She would." "You think me inquisitive ?" Her quick brain had not missed the dry implication of his tone.

"But you see I had to know something.