She entered, as she had departed, without directly meeting his earnest gaze.
"I hope you have made yourself at home," she said.

"Dear me, how untidy everything is!" She moved about, altering the furniture a little, making little piles of the magazines, a graceful, elegant figure in her dark velvet house dress, with a thin band of fur at the neck.

She turned suddenly around and found him watching her.

This time she laughed at him frankly.
"Sit down at once," she ordered, motioning him back to his easy-chair and coming herself to a corner of the lounge.

"Remember that you have a great deal to tell me and explain.