Rosamund turned from the shining view. There was in her eyes an unusual vagueness.

“Why did you?”

“Why did I marry you, Dion?”

“Yes. When I found you with your ‘Paradise’ I don’t think you meant ever to marry me.”

“I always liked you. But at first I didn’t think of you in that way.”

“But you had known for ages before Burstal——”

“Yes, of course. I knew the day I sang at Mr. Darlington’s, at that party he gave to introduce me as a singer. I knew first from your mother. She told me.”

“My mother?”

“By the look she gave me when you introduced me to her.”

“Was it an——How d’you mean?”