The little curls jigged about more than ever, and her cheeks grew quite pink as she answered hastily: "I didn't see anything.

I wasn't looking.

Did you think I saw anything ?" "I hoped you had," he smiled.

"If your eyes had chanced to be turned toward that end of the gallery----" "But I was going the other way.

My back was to it, not my face--like this." And wheeling herself about, she showed him that she had been walking toward the rear of the building rather than advancing toward the front.
His disappointment was great; but it would have been greater if he had not realized that under these conditions she was in the precise position to meet face to face any person emerging into the court from the foot of the small staircase.