"I'm sorry to disappoint you," he said provocatively.
"I have forgotten the meaning of the word disappointment," she returned gravely, looked him full in the eyes for a moment, and then passed on towards the door.
Her self-control was superb, but the picture that remained in Arthur's mind was of her advance towards him across the room. For one instant he had been afraid of her.
"I say! is it all right, do you think?" Hubert eagerly asked, as Arthur joined the group at the farther end of the room.
"Perfectly all right, old chap—I believe," Arthur replied. "Hadn't you better toddle up and see him at once?"
"But what did you tell him?" Hubert persisted.
"Everything I knew," Arthur said. "Cut along."
"I suppose you're very proud of yourself?" Elizabeth put in demurely as her brother went out.
"I'm very glad for Hubert's sake," was Arthur's amendment.
"Only for his sake?" Elizabeth commented carelessly.