“I am persuaded that would not have weighed with you. But you put me in mind of a very important matter. You paid my reckoning there.”
“Don’t let that worry you, I beg.”
“I am determined to pay everything for myself,” Pen said firmly. “It would be a shocking piece of impropriety if I were to be beholden for money to a stranger.”
“True. I had not thought of that.”
She looked up with her sudden bright look of enquiry. “You are laughing at me again!”
He showed her a perfectly grave countenance. “Laughing? I?”
“I know very well you are. You may make your mouth prim, but I have noticed several times that you laugh with your eyes.”
“Do I? I beg your pardon!”
“Well, you need not, for I like it. I would not have come all this way with you if you had not had such smiling eyes. Isn’t it odd how one knows if one can trust a person, even if he is drunk?”
“Very odd,” he said.