“Well, what then?”
“It ended in my paying for her supper, and we arose from the table together, leaving the restaurant together.
“In the street I asked her direction, and proposed to accompany her as far as her door.”
“It would seem as if, then, you took the lead in this thing.”
“That is true in a way, yet she encouraged every step.”
“Of course. Go on.”
“She took me into Seventeenth street, and toward the east, to a respectable-looking house, which she said was one in which she was staying, and asked, indeed coaxed, me to enter.
“Well, like a fool, I consented. She took me into the front parlor, and, asking me to be seated, went off, saying that she would return in a moment.”
“She did, having changed her street dress for a flowing wrapper. Seating herself, she began a series of questions about myself that I, fool that I was, answered.
“Suddenly, and without intimation of her purpose, she arose, and, coming to me, threw her arms about my neck, seating herself on my lap.