“And why are you going to Interlaken?”
Roderick replied without a shadow of wavering, “Because that woman is to be there.”
Rowland burst out laughing, but Roderick remained serenely grave. “You have forgiven her, then?” said Rowland.
“Not a bit of it!”
“I don’t understand.”
“Neither do I. I only know that she is incomparably beautiful, and that she has waked me up amazingly. Besides, she asked me to come.”
“She asked you?”
“Yesterday, in so many words.”
“Ah, the jade!”
“Exactly. I am willing to take her for that.”