"I wasn't looking at him." "He may have been on his way to the mansion." There was a taunting note in his voice, as if he were trying deliberately to work her into a temper.
"It doesn't matter." She spoke flippantly.

"I don't care whether he was or not." Gershom laughed.

"That sounds good to me even if I take it with a grain of salt.

I was beginning to be afraid that you liked him." She turned on him angrily.

"What business is that of yours ?" His amiability, as soon as he had struck fire, became imperturbable.
"Well, I've known you a long time, Patty, and I take an interest in you, you see.