“Ah! Thank you! Thank you!”

He smiled, and the lustrously soft look came into his eyes.

“A woman—she always knows what a man is!” he said, in a low voice.

“It is cold standing here!” she said.

She shivered as she spoke and looked at the water.

“We will go to my flat,” he said, with a sudden air of authority. “There is a big fire there.”

“Oh, no, I can’t!”

“Why not? You have been there.”

“Yes, but I ought not to have gone. I am in mourning.”

“You go to Dick Garstin. What is the difference?”