“Is anyone up there?”

“Not a soul. Who should there be?”

“Well, I don’t know. I thought perhaps—”

“Old Nick was there? Well, he isn’t!”

“How absurd you are!” she said, almost with confusion, and looking away from him. “I only wondered whether you had a model with you.”

“I know, I know!”

After a rather long pause she said:

“What are we waiting here for?”

“Oh—just to rest!”

“But I’m not tired.”