“No, you never told me that. What did you go to the station with him for?”
“I thought that I would know whether after all he really went to Constance. At the Gare, after he has bought his ticket for Lucerne, I find him most agreeable.”
“Did you really think that perhaps he was going to Constance?”
“Yes, I did. I find it very natural that he shall want to go to Constance. I am surprise that day at every one who can decide to go any other place because I so wish to get to Constance myself. Vous comprenez?”
She was obliged to smile audibly.
“It was very funny the way that you came into the Insel salle-à-manger that night. I never was more surprised in my life.”
“I like to come to you that way,” he went on. “When you are so your face becomes glad and I believe that you have been really lonely for me and—”
He stopped suddenly; two big electric lights loomed at the corner to their right and the scene which was revealed by the uncurtained state of the window was responsible for the sudden turn of the current of his thoughts.
“We can eat there,” he exclaimed.
She stopped, astonished.