He asked her if she had not for a time been Chevalier's mistress.

He had asked her this, not because he wanted to know, for he had very little doubt of it, but in order to show that he knew it.

And she had replied indignantly: "Chevalier?
He?
Good gracious no! You wouldn't have had me look at him!" He did not blame her for having lied.

All women lie.

He rather enjoyed the graceful and easy manner with which she had cast the fellow out of her past.