Aurora jumped on her seat with a cry of “Goodness gracious!”
“What is it?” he asked, looking at her more attentively. She appeared aghast.
She did not answer at once, tensely trying to think.
“Well,” she finally exclaimed, relaxing into limpness, “I’ve been and gone and done it!”
And as he waited–
“I guess I did that insulting,” she added, and wiped her brow.
He thought for a moment that she might be acting out a joke, but in the next accepted her perturbation as genuine.
“Can’t you see through it even now I’ve told you?” she asked.
“Did you suppose I didn’t really know those two who came into the box, the one who roared and the one who cawed? Well, I’m a better actress than I supposed.”