"Some one you like?"
"Yes!"
"A relation?"
"That I can't say."
"Then I can't help you. I am naturally inquisitive; curiosity is, as you know, a woman's privilege. You must tell me all."
"It's for a friend, then!"
"A man?"
"No," Shiel replied, "for a girl!"
There was an emphatic silence, and then Lilian Rosenberg spoke.
"Have I ever heard you mention her?"