"Yes. It's six o'clock now. Shall we dine at half-past eight—or better say nine? That will give you plenty of time to come up quietly."
"Yes. Let's say nine."
Still he did not move to go.
"Have you been happy to-day, Hermione?" he asked.
"Yes, very—since this morning."
"Since?"
"Yes. This morning I—"
She stopped.
"I was a little puzzled," she said, after a minute, with her usual frankness. "Tell me, Maurice—you weren't made unhappy by—by what I told you?"
"About—about the child?"