“No; we did not touch on that subject.”
“Come, now, you cannot evade the question. What else did she say to you about me?”
“I don’t know that it is quite right to tell you, but I suppose I may. She said that you were engaged to her.”
“Had been.”
“No, were.”
“Oh, that’s it. She did not tell you she was on her wedding tour?”
“No, she did not.”
“And didn’t you speak to her about her father being on board?”
Katherine laughed her low, enjoyable laugh.
“Yes,” she said, “I did, and I did not think till this moment of how flustered she looked. But she recovered her lost ground with a great deal of dexterity.”