"Didn't you feel what she ought to do? Well, of course you wouldn't! 'His Royal Highness the King' line ought to bring the house down. Wouldn't I make it 'go!'"
"Show me," he begged. "There's nobody looking."
So in the corner that they had found, she hummed the bars, and showed him.
"Oh, aren't you clever!" he exclaimed. "What a pretty voice you have! Perhaps you're—er—fond of babies?"
"If you mean 'have I got any children?' no, I haven't. That was an actress, not a mother. I've no ring on—did you think I was married?"
"Well, you looked so very devoted, I wondered for a moment."
"Are you?"
"Suddenly," said Conrad, gazing at her.
"'Suddenly'—what?"
"Devoted."