"I—I was afraid to go."
"Afraid! Perhaps. but that wasn't the only thing that kept you—"
"What then?" indifferently.
"Curiosity."
"About what?"
"Me."
"Oh!" scornfully.
"It's true. You wanted to hear what passed between us. I thought you had gone. Olga knew you hadn't. She was the cleverest of us all, you see."
"It hasn't made the slightest difference."
He reached her in a stride.