Mona smiled. "I am not quite clear that you have any right to exact a promise from me."
Matilda could not help joining in the smile. This was good fencing.
"At any rate, you have not told any one yet?"
"I have not."
"Not Miss Simpson?"
"Not any one; and therefore not Miss Simpson."
"Well, I must say it was very kind of you."
"I am afraid I ought not to accept your praise; it never occurred to me to speak of it."
"And yet you recognised me?"
Mona laughed outright—a very friendly laugh.