I answered with a shrug.
"And, also, between the city gates and headquarters," she continued.
"You are pleased to speak in riddles," I said.
She let herself sink, with sinuous grace, into the chair.
I sighed, with suggestive audibility, and waited.
It was a good deal of a cat and dog business—and the cat was having all the fun—and knew it.
I could not well have her dragged from the room; and the other alternative—to leave, myself—was not to my taste. It looked too much like flight.
"I wish you would explain why I am not permitted to leave Dornlitz," she said.
"Have you been restrained from leaving?" I asked.
"Still pretending ignorance, my dear," she laughed. "Well, then, I was refused exit at the North gate this morning; and that, though I was only going for a short drive in the country."