Whatever he had come out for he hadn't come to go into that; so that he absolutely took up nothing his interlocutress had now let drop.

Yet, though he had kept away from her for days, had laid wholly on herself the burden of their meeting again, she hadn't a gleam of irritation to show him.

"Well, about Jeanne now ?" she smiled--it had the gaiety with which she had originally come in.

He felt it on the instant to represent her motive and real errand.

But he had been schooling her of a truth to say much in proportion to his little.