"He was reluctant to take you from your work," she continued, determined, if it were possible, to put this young man at his ease. "He felt that, perhaps, you would not want to come."
"I didn't!" he answered explosively.
Rosalind studied him in silence.
"You find banking—interesting?"
"Tremendously!"
"That's odd!" she said before she thought.
"How's that? What?"
"I beg your pardon," said Rosalind. "I didn't mean it exactly that way. Only—Well, you know, we've heard about you, Mr. Kellogg, and we rather pictured a young man who wouldn't be particularly absorbed by anything so serious and important as running a bank."
He blushed vividly.
"I hope I haven't been clumsy in alluding to anything unpleasant," she went on quickly. "I didn't intend—"