Brooks laughed.
"Why," he said, "you are more than half a Radical."
"It is your influence," she said, demurely.
"It will soon pass away," he sighed. "To-morrow you will be back again amongst your friends."
She sighed.
"Why do one's friends bore one so much more than other people's?" she exclaimed.
"When one thinks of it," he remarked, "you must have been very bored here. Why, for the last fortnight there have been no other visitors in the house."
"There have been compensations," she said.
"Tell me about them!" he begged.
She laughed up at him.