"I thought you were abroad?"
"Who told you that?"
"I don't know. I suppose I must have dreamt it."
"I think you must. I've been in town for the last six weeks."
"In town?"
"Yes, if Hampstead's town. I've been staying with the Jewdwines. Didn't he tell you?"
"No, he never told me anything."
She was silent for a moment. "So that's why you never came to see me."
"To see you? I didn't know—and if I had I shouldn't have thought—" He hesitated.
"Of what? Of coming to see me?"