Madam Crewe raised her chin in her old supercilious manner, then quickly lowered it.
"I don't know. I've had no experience. I never punished. Perhaps that is where I made my mistake."
Again Katherine's lips curled slightly in a wry smile.
"You need have no regrets there, grandmother. You have nothing to make up to me on that score."
"You mean I have punished you?"
"Oh—very thoroughly."
"Curious! I can't see myself doing it."
"I can't see you not doing it!"
Madam Crewe, in her turn, stared, surprised. Katherine was acting out of all character, in quite a new, unaccountable fashion.
"I suppose I must take your word for it," her grandmother admitted with an odd sigh. "Be kind enough not to interrupt. You know the story of the man I did not marry. Now you shall hear the story of the man I did marry.