“Yes, I’ll go there with you,” she answered.
But there was a sound of defiance in her voice, and at that moment she had a feeling that she was going to do something more decisively unconventional, even more dangerous, than she had ever yet done.
If they were there! She remembered Craven’s look at Arabian. She remembered, too, the change in Arabian’s face as Craven had passed them.
But Craven had gone back to Adela Sellingworth. Arabian, perhaps, had been the cause of that return.
“Why do you look like that? What are you thinking of?”
“Naples,” she said.
“I will sing you the street song. And then, presently, we will go. I know we must not be too late, or your dear Mademoiselle Cronin will be frightened about you.”
He left her, and went once more to the piano.