“Ah! Just because you are the Wielitzska, I suppose?”

She stared at him in blank astonishment.

“You knew—you knew who I was all the time?” she gasped.

“Certainly I knew.”

“Then—then——”

“Then why wasn’t I suitably impressed?” he suggested drily.

She sprang to her feet.

“Oh! you are intolerable!” she exclaimed hotly. “You know I didn’t mean that!”

He regarded her quite placidly.

“You did. That is precisely what you were thinking. Only you funked putting it into plain words.”