"We must keep up the deception," he said to him, "and seem as if we had not met since the day at the station."
"Why these hole-and-corner resources?" he asked, mystified.
"Because Felicitas is cleverer than we two put together," he answered, with cynical exuberance.
"She planned this?"
"Yes, of course."
"And wrote to you?"
"Equally of course."
"And then?"
Leo saw that he could not rise to the task of convincing his friend.
"Let her explain to you herself," he said, getting red and turning away.