I told him I should be delighted to, but----" "Did you tell me that ?" interrupts Sir Maurice, always smiling.
"Well, if I didn't say it, I meant it," with a shrug.

"But, you see, I had lost my card, so I wasn't sure whether I was engaged to somebody else or not." "Why----" begins Hescott.
He stops dead short.

Suddenly it occurs to him that perhaps she doesn't wish her husband to _know!_ He curses himself for this thought afterwards.

She--_she_ to descend to duplicity of any sort! "It is you who have my card!" cries Tita suddenly, as if just remembering, and with a merry laugh.

"Of course! How could I have forgotten!" "How, indeed!" says her husband pleasantly; his mouth is looking a little hard, however.
"Give it to me," says Tita.
Hescott gives her the car in silence.