‘I am at your disposal.’
‘Have you ever been in love with any one?’
He glanced up from his cigarette with an amused stare. ‘What’s this—a confessional?’
‘Oh, no—only you don’t look as if you’d ever done such a foolish thing, and I just wondered——’
‘Half a dozen times.’
‘Really?’
‘Oh, I dare say not—really,’ he laughed. ‘In my cub days I used to be—well, interested sometimes.’
‘But you outgrew it?’
‘It would be a rash man who would affirm that! You never can tell what’s waiting for you around the next corner.’
She would have liked to put a question or so in regard to the contessa, but instead she remarked, ‘There are some other things I’d like to ask you.’