“Certainly she is.”

“Because she behaved so oddly at Vauxhall?”

“That, and other reasons.”

“Well, I will tell you something,” said Arabella resolutely.

“I like her.”

He turned his head to look at her. “Indeed! I should not have thought that you had had time to make up your mind in the short while you were in her company.”

“As a matter of fact,” confided Miss Ravenscar, “I met her on another occasion. Don’t be cross!”

“I am not cross. Where did you meet her?”

She cast him a look, half-mischievous, half-deprecating. “I wanted to see her for myself. So I went to visit her at her home.”

“The devil you did!” he said. “And you decided that you liked her?”