"It's very warm to-night."
"Still, it's imprudent."
"You playing sick nurse!"
But all the gaiety had gone out of her voice, all the liveliness had vanished from her manner.
"Shall we walk a little?" he said. "Shall we go to the bank of the river?"
"No, no. You mustn't tire yourself. Let us sit down, and very soon I shall send you to bed."
"Not just yet."
"I'm—"
"It isn't that I want you to play. Besides, that noise over there would disturb us. No, but I want to talk to you. I must talk to you to-night."
One side of her mouth went down. But she turned her face quickly, and he did not see it. They came on to the terrace before the lighted windows.