He was still laughing, and he said:
"You know very well you are pretty, you little fraud, and my name is Roger."
I never called him Mr. Hamilton after that.
XXIII
When I introduced Mr. Hamilton to Mrs. Kingston, she put on her glasses and examined him curiously, and he said, with a rather formal smile, not at all as he smiled at me:
"I've heard quite a lot about you from Miss Ascough, and am very glad to meet you."
"I've known all about you for some time," she said, chuckling. And then she added, "I don't know what I expected to see, but you don't quite measure up to Nora's extravagant ideal."
"No, I suppose not," he said, his eyes twinkling. "I doubt if any man could do that."