"Oh, I thought he'd read it," said Sibylla thoughtfully.
She took it and put it in her pocket.
Christine looked at her with a smile.
"And yet you ask me to stay!" she remarked.
Sibylla smiled mockingly.
"Since this household owes all its happiness to you, it's only fair that you should come and look on at it."
"That's not at all a comfortable thing to say, Sibylla."
"No, it isn't, and it departs from our principle, which is to say nothing."
"That's not always very comfortable either."
Christine was giving a thought to her own affairs here.