“I offend Miss Grayson?” the Unknown said softly.

No, she was not offended. Only — only it was so very strange not to know who he was.

“My name you would not know if I told it,” he said. “Why spoil a perfect hour?”

Her lips were a little parted. “A perfect hour!” she echoed. “Is it perfect, sir?”

“For me at least, Letitia.”

“But — but you must not call me by my name!” she said. Yet she did not sound angry.

“Nor tell you that I came only to dance with you?”

“D-did you, sir?”

He nodded. “But, of course. Didn’t you guess it, Letitia?”

“No, oh no! How should I? And — and you use my name again, sir.”