In a very few minutes the others followed her example, Fleming leaving the house with Maud and Wallace.
CHAPTER XXV
WITH MY HEART'S LOVE
Scarcely had the hall door closed behind them when Hepworth turned to Dita inquiringly. "Would you not very much prefer that I left you?" he asked. "I can see that you are not well, and we can discuss anything that remains to be talked over at any other time."
"No," she shook her head, "I am quite well. I have not even the headache I claimed, and I must, indeed I must, talk to you to-night."
"But if our conversation this morning so upset and unnerved you," he urged, "would it not be wise to defer this?"
"Our conversation didn't," she replied with emphasis. "It was another conversation. Cresswell, will you answer me a question or two?"
"Anything you wish to know," he replied.
She got up, and, after a fashion she sometimes showed, perhaps unconsciously copied from him, began to walk restlessly up and down, occasionally stopping to pick up and examine some ornament quite as if she had never happened to notice it before.