He stops and drinks more wine.
“Very well! And then?”
“Why, then, she had a very pleasant visit,” he says, gayly.
“Mr. Moultrie, is that the whole of the story?”
“No, indeed, Miss Plumer; but that is as far as we have got.”
“I want to hear the rest.”
“Don’t be in such a hurry; you won’t like the rest so well.”
“Yes; but that is my risk.”
“It is your risk,” says Sligo Moultrie, looking at her; “will you take it?”
“Of course I will,” is the clear-eyed answer.