'But you have amused me!' His eyes shone mischievously.
'Oh, very well.' She took the gibe in good part, offering her hand again.
'Good-bye, my dear,' he said gently. 'It's great fun having you in the world!' He spoke as though he had personally arranged this provision against dulness for his latter end.
The next evening he came up to her at a party to ask why she had absented herself from a dinner the night before where he expected to find her.
'Oh, I telephoned in the morning they weren't to expect me.'
'What were you doing, I should like to know?'
'No, you wouldn't like to know. But you couldn't have helped laughing if you'd seen me.'
'Where?'
'Wandering about the purlieus of Battersea.'