“Did you ever go to a masked ball?”
“Mais, naturellement.”
“Well, so did I.” She paused to note the effect.
He threw a quick glance of undefined question at her.
“Masked?” he demanded.
“Oh, dear no! thickly veiled, and ’way upstairs in a gallery.”
“Were you greatly amused ’way upstairs in your gallery?”
“Yes, really; there were ever so many men there that I knew.”
“Did they come upstairs in the gallery?”
“No indeed, no one knew that I was there. But it interested me to see whom I knew—”