"And I did not ?" Though her manner could not have been more indifferent, there was an undercurrent of feeling in her voice, as if she meant something more than she had put into words.

He might take it as he chose, lightly or seriously, her look implied--and it was, he admitted, a thrilling look from such eyes as hers.
"You are nearer my age," she rejoined, "though you do seem so old sometimes." A depressing dampness fell on his mood.

"Do I seem old to you?
I am only twenty-six." Her inquiring eyebrows were raised in mockery.

"That is too old to play, isn't it ?" "Well, I might try," he answered, and added curiously, "I wonder whom you find to play with?
Not your father ?" "Oh, no, not Father.

He is as serious as Mr.Benham, only he laughs a great deal more.