"Hadn't you? Oh, well, it doesn't matter."
"Shall I go?"
"You can please yourself."
"If you really mean that, Miss Dorland, I should like to stay. I've been wanting to meet you, you know."
"That was nice of you," she mocked. "First you wanted to defraud me, and now you're trying to——"
"To what?"
She shrugged her wide shoulders.
"Yours is not a pleasant hobby, Lord Peter Wimsey."
"Will you believe me," said Wimsey, "when I assure you that I was never a party to the fraud. In fact, I showed it up. I did, really."
"Oh, well. It doesn't matter now."