"I am not good at conversation."
"Apparently not. However, you will not have much chance of showing off your weakness this morning."
"Why not?"
"You might say you are sorry! Why not? Because I am not going far."
"How far?"
"That is a rude question. It is like asking me where I am going. But I will be nice and tell you—just to make you feel your inferiority. I am going to see Marion Darche."
"Mrs. Darche lunches about this time."
"Exactly. It is within the bounds of possibility that I may be going to lunch with her."
"Oh, quite!"
Again there was a short pause as the two walked on together. Dolly took rather short, quick steps. Vanbrugh did not change his gait. There are men who naturally fall into the step of persons with whom they are walking. It shows an imitative disposition and one which readily accepts the habits of others. Neither Dolly nor her companion were people of that sort.