"I was," Peggy answered—"very."
The K.C.'s head was bent forward and was swaying slightly from side to side, as the head of a snake sways before it strikes. He was quite unconscious of the marked hostility of his attitude, but the game, the big, exciting game which he was playing, which he was paid so highly to play, and which had become the chief excitement of his life, had caught hold of him in all his nerves.
"Had he knocked?" he said.
"I didn't hear him," Peggy replied, "or of course I should not have let him come in."
"I see," Sir Robert replied. "You were hardly dressed to receive gentlemen visitors?"
"Well, hardly."
"You were angry, Mrs. Admaston?"
"I was angry," Peggy replied.
"Now! how did you show your anger?"
"By telling him to go back to his room."