"If he knew what?"
"That you'd asked Furny down."
"But he doesn't know. He needn't ever know."
"He needn't. But people like Viveash have a perfect genius for the unnecessary. Besides——"
He paused before the unutterable, and she faced him with her smile of innocent interrogation.
"Well," he said, "it's so jolly risky. These things, you know, only end one way."
Fanny's eyes said plainly that to their vision all sorts of ways were possible.
"If it were any other man but——" He stopped short at Furnival's name.
Fanny lowered her eyes almost as if she had been convicted of indiscretion.
"You see," she said, "any other man wouldn't do. He's the one and only man. There never was any other. That's the awful part of it for her."