“Impossible!”
She laid the collar beside other collars already ironed and took up another; but he heard no answer.
“How did you know?” he asked. “From what?”
“From various things.”
“What things?”
“From things I did?”
She nodded, rather solemnly, and her face, what he could see of it–seemed very serious. Pats was watching her intently, and exclaimed, in surprise:
“That is very curious, for I kept it to myself!”
“Any woman would have known.”