"'Kent.' Easily—oh yes! Will you tell me something about your new book? I'm ashamed to say I haven't read it yet."
"Don't apologise. It's called Thy Neighbour's Husband."
"Does she bolt with him, or do you end it virtuously?"
"Virtuously, monsieur," she said, smiling. "You travel fast!"
"And—please go on! Are there cakes and ale, or does she tend the sick and visit the poor?"
"You appal me!" said Mrs. Deane-Pitt. "Whatever my faults, I am modern; I end with a question-point."
"Not questioning the lady's——"
"Oh, her happiness, of course!"
"'This brilliant and absorbing study, which is already giving rise to considerable discussion,' would be the kind of thing?"
"Quite," she said. "I'm awfully sorry to give you so much trouble."