"No, for to-night we are guests at a dinner-party and are talking about literature and music and art."
"But I want to talk about you—May I not?"
"I do not see why you should. I am just a person whom you will never really see again—I mean, never really talk to again—so why waste time in unprofitable investigations?"
"How do you know that they would be unprofitable?"
Katherine looked down at her own white hands folded quietly in her lap, then up again and straight into his eyes.
"This night week if you chance to think of this evening, you will realise how right I am as to their complete unprofitableness!"
"'You are ready for the great adventure?'"