She had an uneasy dread lest Nick's intelligence should leap ahead of her and disclose to her with disconcerting suddenness facts and possibilities with which she was quite unprepared to reckon.

She visualized his grin of amused comprehension over the means she had devised for her own deliverance and the unpleasant quandary in which it had placed her.

Nick's sense of humour was at times almost too keen.

She smiled faintly to herself over this reflection.

She could not deny that there were points in the situation which appealed even to her own.
Yet she was more ashamed than amused.