At any rate, I have been there with him two or three times, and he is always welcome." "From what I have heard," I remarked, "I should imagine that you and I are the only people who have been allowed to go there without qualifications." She glanced as though by accident at the sleeping man opposite.

Then, as though conscious of what she had done, a spot of color burned in her cheeks.

Since the anger which had first inspired her to speech had died away, her manner had been a little shy.

I realized more and more that she must be quite young.
"Perhaps," she answered.

"I do not understand the place or its habitues.