"Two days back."
"Have you seen her since?"
"No. I've been round that street several times. I know it by heart. I haven't dared go up—not so soon again."
"I wish I'd seen her," Millie said slowly. Then she added, "Anyway you must go on with it, Henry. You've promised to help her and so of course you must. If she's taking you in it will do you good to be taken in. It will teach you not to be such an ass another time. If she's not taking you in——"
"Of course she's not taking me in," Henry answered hotly. "I know that you and Peter think me a baby and that I haven't any idea of things. You've always thought that, Millie, but I'm sure I don't know what you base it on. I'm hardly ever wrong. Wasn't I right about Philip? Isn't he just the prig I always thought him, and didn't he take Katherine away from us and break us all up just as I said he would?
"And as to girls you both look so learned as though you knew such a lot, but when have I ever been foolish about girls? I've never cared the least bit about them until now. I've been waiting, I think, until she came along. Because I'm not always tidy and break things, you both think I'm an ass. But I'm not an ass, as I'll show you."
Millie went across to him and kissed him on the forehead.
"Of course I don't think you an ass. But you are easily taken in by people—you always believe what they say."
Henry nodded his head. "Perhaps I don't so much as I mean to. But it's the best thing to try to. You get far more that way."