‘Well, we were alone in the room, you understand.’
‘Yes, yes, go on!’
‘And he paid me many little compliments: kept saying how pretty I was, and that he had never seen a sweeter girl, and so on. You know what gentlemen would say?’
‘And you?’
‘Oh, I hardly answered him, but of course I was young and inexperienced, and I could not help being flattered and pleased at his words. I may have shown him what I felt, for he suddenly—’
‘Kissed you!’
‘Exactly. He kissed me. Don’t walk up and down the room, dear. It fidgets me.’
‘All right. Go on. Don’t stop. After this outrage what happened next?’
‘You really want to know?’
‘I must know. What did you do?’