Then "Is she really quite charming ?" she asked.
He had got up with his last words and gathered in his hat and gloves.
"I don't know; I'm watching.

I'm studying the case, as it were--and I dare say I shall be able to tell you." She wondered.

"Is it a case ?" "Yes--I think so.

At any rate I shall see.' "But haven't you known her before ?" "Yes," he smiled--"but somehow at home she wasn't a case.

She has become one since." It was as if he made it out for himself.