I took her hand and kissed it. Then I glanced around for onlookers.
Lady Helen laughed softly. "You men always do that," she said.
"Oh!" said I.
"You look only after it's all over."
"Oh!" said I, again.
"At least, so I have observed," she admitted, frankly.
"You mean such has been your experience?"
"Well," said she, with a mischievous gleam in her grey eyes, "wasn't it so just now?"
I got up and looked carefully around. No one was very near and we were in the shadow. I leaned over and quickly kissed her on the cheek.
"It wasn't so that time," I said.