"What a knight!"

"Extraordinary, but I fancied I heard you say, 'What a night'!"

"That's what I said, Doc."

"But you've only been gone about five minutes. How can you say—?"

"Search me. All I know is, I just spent the last three hours with a knight."

"A night, in a few hours! How—?"

"I said 'knight'. The kind that rides a horse—you know."

I stared at her, but she was coyly putting on her clothes, a half-smile on her lovely face.

"He was so sweet, Doc. Talked a kind of funny French, but I could understand enough to intuition the rest—Anyhow, after awhile I remembered you'd be worried about me, so I sneaked out of his castle, and went through my routine up to the point where I wiggle my hips—and here I am."

"But—where were you?"