“Oh dear, no; simply in extreme thankfulness for every minute that’s added.”
“Ah, well, there will probably be a great many,” she rejoined.
“The more the better—if they are like this.”
“That won’t be the case with many of them, in Lomax Place.”
“I assure you that since that night Lomax Place has improved.” Hyacinth stood there, smiling, with his hands in his pockets and his hat pushed back a little.
The Princess appeared to consider this fact with an extreme intellectual curiosity. “If, after all, then, you are not called, you will have been positively happy.”
“I shall have had some fine moments. Perhaps Hoffendahl’s plot is simply for that; Muniment may have put him up to it!”
“Who knows? However, with me you must go on as if nothing were changed.”
“Changed from what?”
“From the time of our first meeting at the theatre.”