“Oh yes, he was,” said Miss Van Tuyn.
And she said no more.
“He was very enthusiastic about you,” ventured Braybrooke, wondering how to interpret her silence.
“Really!”
“Yes. We belong to the same club, the St. James’s. He entertained me for more than an hour with your praises.”
Miss Van Tuyn looked at him with rather acute inquiry, as if she could not make up her mind about something with which he was closely concerned.
“He would like to meet you again,” said Braybrooke, with soft firmness.
“But I have met him again two or three times. He called on me.”
“And I understand you were together in a restaurant in—Soho, I think it was.”
“Yes, we were.”