“I have a good many friends, and I dine out quite a great deal.”
“You have no sisters?”
“I have no relatives at all in London,” he explained.
“It is to be a real cross-examination,” she warned him.
“I am quite content,” he answered. “Go ahead, but remember, though, that I am a very dull person.”
“You look so young for your years,” she declared. “I wonder, have you ever been in love?”
He laughed heartily.
“About a dozen times, I suppose. Why? Do I seem to you like a misanthrope?”
“I don’t know,” she admitted, hesitatingly. “You don’t seem to me as though you cared to make friends very easily. I just felt I wanted to ask you. Have you ever been engaged?”
“Never,” he assured her.