"You are up," he said.
"Yes," she replied, a little coldly. "Did you want anything?"
"Only to see if you slept—if you were coming down soon."
"I shall be down directly."
He hesitated an instant, then he said:
"Were you not in the grounds just now?"
Elizabeth did not answer; she had let her hair down and was beginning to arrange it, shading her pale face with the floating tresses.
"Were you?" he inquired again.
"What did you ask?" she demanded.
He repeated the question.