"Really, Your Honor, you know entirely too much!"
"I adore the little wretches—and their games!" he said frankly. "I'm always on their side!"
"You don't adore anything! You couldn't!"
She had stopped before him, looking up at him with her blue eyes, which were no longer cloudy but sparkling with provocation.
"You read character, too," he answered, smiling impersonally. "It's true—it's safer and more amusing! Let me behind the scenes. I like it—that's all I ask!"
"All?"
"Quite all!" he said dryly. Then: "What are you going to do with Sassoon and Harrigan Blood?"
He asked the question without preparation, to throw her off her guard, but she avoided it by asking another.
"Are you really just looking on?" she said, drawing her eyebrows together. "Only curious?"
"It's as I told you," he said. "You see how I am here. Can't you tell?"