She brought herself back with a start. "I was only thinking," she murmured.
"Then there is doubt in your mind what you would do?"
"N—no," she hesitated.
He bent over nearer across the table. "You would at least recall the old adage, 'Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you'?" he urged.
It was uncanny, the way this man read her thoughts.
"You know whom they say quotes scripture," she avoided.
"And am I a—a devil?"
"I did not say so."
"You hinted it."
She had. But she said, "No, nor hinted it."