"It's quite fine again now," he said in an undertone to Sally.
She expressed mild surprise--the lifting of her eyebrows, the casual "Really." Then it seemed to her that he did not exactly deserve to be treated like that and she told him how she had got wet through, coming home.
"Changed your clothes, I hope," he whispered.
"Oh yes." "You might get pneumonia, you know," he said.
She smiled at that.

"And of such are the Kingdom of Heaven." He gazed at her in surprise.

"Why should you say that ?" he asked.
"Don't know--why shouldn't I ?" He looked down at his empty plate.

There was something he wanted to say to her.

He kept looking round the table for inspiration.