She told him about her music, and about a Suffrage meeting to which Henry had taken her, and she asserted, half seriously, that she had learnt the Greek alphabet, and found it "fascinating." The word was underlined.

Had she laughed when she drew that line?
Was she ever serious?
Didn't the letter show the most engaging compound of enthusiasm and spirit and whimsicality, all tapering into a flame of girlish freakishness, which flitted, for the rest of the morning, as a will-o'-the-wisp, across Rodney's landscape.

He could not resist beginning an answer to her there and then.

He found it particularly delightful to shape a style which should express the bowing and curtsying, advancing and retreating, which are characteristic of one of the many million partnerships of men and women.

Katharine never trod that particular measure, he could not help reflecting; Katharine--Cassandra; Cassandra--Katharine--they alternated in his consciousness all day long.