"Were you up as late as I?
And are balls worth their headaches ?" She was clearly surprised by the ease and gaiety of his manner, and at the same time--he thought--inclined to resent his interruption of her walk, before she had made up her mind in what mood, or with what aspect to meet him next.

But he gave her no time for further pondering.

He walked beside her, while she coldly explained that she had taken Nora to meet some girl friends at the Cherwell boat-house, and was now hurrying back herself to pay some calls with her aunt in the afternoon.
"What a week you have had!" he said when she paused.

"Is there anything left of you?
I saw that you stayed very late last night." She admitted it.
"As for me, of course, I thought the ball--intolerable.

But that of course you know--you must know!" he added with a sudden vehement emphasis.