"You did not foresee me a star turn, hein?"
He gave a shrug. "How could I foresee? If you had not married Bourjac, of course it would not have happened?"
"I suppose not," she murmured. She was sorry he realised that; she would have liked him to feel that she might have had the Illusion anyhow, and been a woman worth his winning.
"Indeed," added Legrand pensively, rolling a cigarette, "you have done a great deal to obtain a success. It is not every girl who would go to such lengths."
"What?" She coloured indignantly.
"I mean it is not every girl who would break the heart of a man who loved her."
They looked in each other's eyes for a moment. Then she turned her head scornfully away.
"Why do you talk rot to me? Do you take me for a kid?"
He decided that a pained silence would be most effective.
"If you cared about me, why didn't you say so?" she flashed, putting the very question he had hoped for.