He moved just a shade closer to her.
"Oh, I shall miss you quite enough," he said.
She laughed.
"I don't think you will," she said. "You'll have your bathing and your boating and your writing. I expect you will have a very jolly time."
He seemed to think over this.
"Yes, I shall have all those things," he said. "And I like them. Why shouldn't I? But—no, like you, I won't say that."
"But I did," she remarked.
"Well, I will too. I shall miss you much more than I should have missed you if you had gone away a week ago."
She, too, hesitated a moment. Then very coolly she replied:
"Thank you very much."