To have them known without disclosing them would be very often--a great relief." He leaned a little towards her.
"Is that a challenge ?" he asked, "if I can find out ?" The colour left her face with amazing suddenness.

She drew away from him quickly.

Her whisper was almost a moan.
"No! for God's sake, no!" she murmured.

"I meant nothing.

You must not think that I was speaking about myself." "I hoped that you were," he answered simply.
The Baroness turned in her chair as though anxious to join in the conversation.