4/13 See! I can stand on both of them. Let me thank you," she said, smiling into his eyes as she moved away. Good-afternoon." Hugh, disconcerted and piqued by her confusion of names, answered her wondrous smile with one that reflected bewildered admiration, and finally managed to send after her: "I wouldn't have lost the opportunity for the world." That evening he was sitting out on deck in contemplative silence enjoying his after-dinner smoke. |