“Are you sure of that?”

“Absolutely.”

“Well, you happen to be right. We have never met. All the same, I know you.”

“How?”

Mischievously, she continued:

“There are such things as photographs.”

“There are. It happens that I have not been photographed for about ten years. I hate photographs.”

“Then you have no idea who I am?”

“None.”

Tiddy reflected that Cicely, evidently, had not taken undue pains to describe her best friend to another friend. However . . .!