"She said, too, that she could marry him if she liked, but that she didn't want to."
"I don't know anything about that."
"If she went with him at all, she said, it would probably be ... without marriage, as she didn't wish to be bound to him."
I looked up in curiosity.
"And did she say there was any possibility of her going with him at all?"
"I think she did. That's what made me think her touched in her mind or crazy. She said she hadn't decided, or something like that; but as she was going to be an adventuress she had to begin some time, and perhaps it might as well be with him as with any one else. She spoke as if it rested entirely with her to take him or throw him away."
Again I decided to be cruel.
"It very likely does."
She was standing now by my dressing-table, and as if my words had meant nothing to her she said:
"Aren't you going to take your hair-brush?"