She laughed derisively. "Why do you tell me such nonsense?"
"Nonsense!" he said. "Nonsense!"
"Lies would be the more fitting term."
"I do not understand."
"No—there is your trouble; you do not know if I kept the rendezvous, so you play it as if you did!"
"As if I did!" he repeated.
She laughed again. "I suppose you will be averring that you do not understand me."
He bowed. "Pray explain," he said.
"It is for you to explain. I kept the rendezvous; you did not."
He tried to look his surprise. "You kept the rendezvous?"