“You had no right to be angry over my going out, and I had just as much cause for displeasure over your returning as you had over my going.”
“No,” he said quickly, “for it was a compliment to you that I return, and no compliment at all to me that you stay after I am gone so as to visit the concert with monsieur.”
She laughed a little.
“I hope that you will never behave so again; you were so unbearably rude that I was sorry to have sent for you. If I had not,” she asked, with real curiosity, “if I had not, would you have spoken to me after a while?”
He shrugged his shoulders.
“Je ne sais pas,” he replied with brevity; and then looking down at her with one of his irresistible smiles he added, “but I find it probable.”
She smiled in return, saying:
“Do undertake to never be angry like that again.”
“Again!” he said quickly and pointedly; “then I may come to Constance?”
Her mind was forced to take a sudden leap in order to rejoin his rapid deduction of effect from cause.