“It is true that Dudley and I differ occasionally, but I do not disobey him… if I can help it.”
“Well, if you took French leave this time, you can easily do it again.”
“But this time it was a novelty. I was curious to find out how I should enjoy an afternoon with you?”
“Rubbish. You knew perfectly well you would enjoy it immensely. So did I. Two people who like each other always know those kind of things at once.”
Hal leaned back in her chair, and her expressive mouth twitched in a way that made him long to kiss it hard.
“There are occasions when I don’t like you at all,” she said.
“Fibber again. When don’t you like me?”
“Chiefly when you are quite positive certain sure that I do.”
“Well, that is never; so you are a fibber.”
“I thought you seemed particularly confident nine seconds ago.”