"What are you doing here ?" "And you ?" she counter demanded.

"You have no coat, no hat ..." Her hands gripped his arm.

"I saw you run through the light.

You had a pistol." An impulse which he could not explain prompted him to tell her a falsehood.
"I came out--to see what the night looked like," he said.

"When I heard you in the darkness it startled me for a moment, and I drew my pistol." It seemed to him that her fingers clutched deeper and more convulsively into his arm.
"You have seen no one else ?" she asked.
Again he was prompted to keep his secret.
"Is it possible that any one else is awake and roaming about at this hour ?" he laughed.