"As your countrymen are doing. If there was more than half-an-ounce of the radium of common sense in this kingdom at the present moment, some people would be thinking very hard, Miss Silvester——"
"Of what?"
He rose from his chair, thrust his hands deep into his trousers pockets, went over to the window and stood looking out.
"They would be thinking of the frost," he said.
"Perhaps it is too cold to think about it!"
He laughed.
"Well said and true. Did you read in the Times that there is ice in the English Channel for the first time for twenty years?"
"I never read the Times——"
"Then don't begin if you would remain a woman."
"Is she, then, unworthy of it?"