She checked him with a stabbing glance.
"Do you know what you've done?" she demanded.
"Why, I——"
"Are you sane enough to realize?"
Bill had never seen quite such an expression in her eyes. They fascinated him; almost they inspired him with awe. He even forgot the freckles.
"But I'm looking for the signor."
"Signor!" she echoed. "Well, never mind him. He's gone. Just for the moment, there's something else——"
"Gone? But he just came!"
Mary's jaw had developed an angle of grimness.