“You are intolerable.”

“And you are inquisitive—I mean acquisitive. And you know too much already.”

“Did that have anything to do with the ‘but?’”

“What?”

“That I know too much already?”

Perhaps I should have had to confess had not the lady whom I did take in to dinner demanded my attention at the moment. Presently the Débutante was saying: “Did you go to the Charity Ball?”

“Now you are having fun with me. Do I look like a charity baller?”