"I had no idea it was so late." "Come here one moment, please," she insisted.
He came back into the room and stood on the other side of the small table near which she had paused.
"What is it, dear ?" he enquired.

"We are going to leave our talk till after dinner, aren't we ?" She looked him in the face.

There was an anxious light in her eyes, and she was certainly not herself.

"Of course! I only wanted to know--it seemed to me that you broke off in what you were saying to the inspector, as I came into the room.

Are you sure that it was the lights he came around about?
There isn't anything else wrong, is there ?" "What else could there be ?" he asked wonderingly.
"I have no idea," she replied, with well-simulated indifference.