She drew back deliberately, and her anger grew from scorn to cruelty during the moments that intervened between his question and her answer.
"You have chosen a very appropriate occasion," she remarked icily at length.

"Do you imagine yourself irresistible when playing the fool, I wonder ?" He faced round on her.
"I have taken the only opportunity I could get," he said.

"I am a slave of circumstance.

If I had come to you in rational costume you would not have consented to sit out with me." There was a ring of laughter in his explanation.

He did not take her anger seriously, then.