"What if I don't go, either?" said Val, with a sudden inspiration.
"Why should you?" returned Ethan, smiling.
She whipped off her hat and jacket and flung them on the sofa.
"And you're all alone," she said, in extenuation of her sudden change of front.
"Exactly."
"Do you know, you are not at all what I expected?"
"I'm very sorry."
"I used to imagine what you were like, and it wasn't at all like this."
He sat up with a look of amusement.