"Want to hear about it ?" She looked startled for a moment, and a little incredulous.
"Yes, go on!" she said.
He told her the story.

She listened with an interest which surprised him.

Once or twice when he looked up he fancied that the lady from Vienna was also doing her best to listen.

When he had finished their supper had arrived.
"I think," she said, as she helped herself to _hors d'oeuvre_, "that you were very fortunate to get away." He laughed carelessly.
"The joke of it is," he said, "I've been followed all the way here.

One fellow, who pretended he got in at Strasburg, was trying to talk to me all the time, but I saw him sneak in at Vienna, and I wasn't having any.
I say, do you come here every evening ?" "Very often," she answered.