“Shouldn’t wonder,” said Paul, laconic.
“But she is thoroughly sincere about it.”
“Possibly, but last night the sincerity was all on my side.”
“How so?”
“Well, I would have danced with her the evening through, if she had let me—she loves dancing.”
The Doctor’s eyes twinkled: “Don’t you think she is a striking personality?”
“Striking? Oh, yes! gracefully so, deux-temps spirituelle. I felt the effect at once.”
“In character?”
Paul smiled. “I call it strikingly practical—no nonsense; she wouldn’t let me, and that settled it.”
“Of course she had her own way—at a ball,” remarked the Doctor dryly.