"Acting for Henriette, I believe that you said yes," he resumed quizzically.
Laughter was the cue here, too. She was prompt with it.
"Did I? You were so eloquent I thought that I ought, instead of spoiling the play. It was the quickest way. I was getting embarrassed with my own joke."
"You are a brick, too, my seventeenth cousin!" he said. "No harm done, as you have told nobody else."
"Oh, but I have!" She could not help letting the truth go. "I told Henriette."
"Oh!" Phil was thoughtful. "What did she say?"
"To tell you—that is—I mean, the sense of it—that she was not acting by proxy in such matters."
"Naturally not," he replied. "However, she knows," he concluded.
"All's well that ends well," said Helen.
"Yes."