"Too many people here, though." Norgate strolled on, and Mrs.Benedek tapped her companion on the knuckles with her fan.
"How dared you be so rude!" she exclaimed.

"You are in a very bad humour this evening.

I can see that I shall have to punish you." "That's all very well," Baring grumbled, "but it gets more difficult to see you alone every day.

This evening was to have been mine.

Now this fat German turns up and lays claim to you, and then, about the first moment we've had a chance to talk, Norgate comes gassing along.