Her eyebrows were slightly lifted.
"If you can bear to lose her, I'm sure I can.

She is really rather a dear person but she is very intense.

She will meet a crowd of people she knows, directly, and quite forget that we have slipped away.

Shall we go down Birdcage Walk, or if you are in a hurry, perhaps you would prefer a taxi ?" He shook his head.
"I prefer to walk." He did not at first prove a very entertaining companion.

They proceeded for some distance almost in silence.
"If I were a curious person," Lady Elisabeth remarked, "I should certainly be puzzling my brain as to what there could have been about that very frivolous young man to call such an expression into your face.
And how terrified he was to see you!" Maraton smiled grimly.
"You have observation, I perceive, Lady Elisabeth." "Powers of observation but no curiosity, thank goodness," Lady Elisabeth declared.