It was pretty dark, and I could not see his face, but insensibly I felt him lean toward me to look at mine; and then he said in a low voice:
"Are you sure of that?"
"Why, yes," I said. "I don't know the man at all. Did you think that I did?" He did not answer me, and I added, "Was it because of him you did not speak to me last night?"
"I did bow to you," he said, and then added reluctantly, "though I can't say I admired the looks of your party."
I said:
"I didn't even see the people with you, and it wouldn't have made any difference to me who they were."
He put his arm along the back of the bench behind me, but not touching me.
"Where did you get the clothes you had on—the dress you're wearing now?" he asked in a strained voice.
"Lolly lent them to me," I said. "She said mine were not fine enough."