'Fancy!' said Edith.
'Fancy what?'
'Somehow I never should have thought it,' said Edith thoughtfully.
'Never should have thought what? You have a way of assuming I know the end of your story before I've heard the beginning. It's an annoying method,' said Bruce.
'I shouldn't have been so surprised if they had been anywhere else. But just there,' continued Edith.
'Who? and where?'
'Perhaps I'd better not tell you,' Edith said.
They had just finished dinner, and she got up as if to ring the bell for coffee.
He stopped her.
'No! Don't ring; I don't wish Bennett to be present at a painful scene.'