"Offered to help Tom and Maggie with billiards, but they were so deuced ungrateful I left."
"You were a wise man," said Cary, and she laughed. Then she began to drum on the window. "If you could do anything you liked what would you do, just at this minute?"
Stewart twirled the book he held indifferently. "I'd kiss you," he thought, but aloud he said meekly, "I'll watch you, please ma'am."
"Nonsense!" answered Cary, turning her head uneasily and looking out of the window at McGuire again.
She stifled a yawn.
"It's a lazy day, isn't it?"
"You're sure it's the day?"
"Of course! What a suggestion. Is it near lunch time?"
Stewart nodded.
"How about a walk afterwards," he said. "It's clearing and the sun's coming out. We might go to the Point and watch it set," he added quickly, seeing her waver.