"Oh, but I am I You know very well I couldn't stay away. Why, I practically invited myself."
He tried to capture one of Rosalind's hands, but she, alert, easily evaded his clumsy caress.
"Please don't begin that again," she said in annoyance. "If you do I'll go home to-morrow."
"But, Rosalind, you know very well—"
"Will you stop?"
"Oh, very well! But I give you fair warning that I haven't stopped for good."
She sighed and frowned.
"I thought I'd struck the limit of unsociability on the way down here," observed Reginald. "The fellow that brought me was deaf and dumb."
"Really?"
"Couldn't speak a word. Couldn't hear, either. I had to write on a piece of paper where I wanted to go."