"For just about the hundredth part of a second, in your eyes."
They were looking at each other and his gaze though within restraint was undeniably alive. Alice knew not whether she could quite ignore it or whether her eyes would drop in an annoying admission of self-consciousness. She avoided the latter by confessing. "I am sure I don't know at all what you are talking about----"
"I am sure you do, but you are privileged not to tell if you don't want to."
"Then--our dinner card was mislaid and until to-night we didn't know whether----"
"There was going to be any dinner."
"Oh, I knew that. I was at the Casino this afternoon----"
"I saw you."
"And when I was asked whether I was going to the dinner at The Towers I couldn't, of course, say."
"Who asked you, Mrs. Nelson?"
"No, indeed. What made you think it was she?"