"Does your interest in episodes like to-night always die so suddenly?"—nodding toward the others, who had long since ceased to pay me any particular attention.
"Nearly always."
"Very well; since they have forgotten us let us forget them." I leaned toward her, and my voice was not so steady as it should have been. "In what manner would it benefit me to tell you my name and what my occupation in the great world is? Would it put me on the list of your acquaintance?"
She eyed me thoughtfully. "That depends."
"Upon what?"
"Whether you were worth knowing. I addressed other gentlemen in front of your club. They politely said I had made a mistake."
"They were old or married."
"That wasn't it."
"Then they didn't see you in the light, as I did."
"What difference would that have made?"