"I should like to be with you every day for hours. You do me good. We'll have tea."
She went to the telephone, came back quickly, sat down again, and continued talking enthusiastically. When the tea-table was in front of her, and the elderly German waiter had gone, she said:
"Isn't it wonderful? I shall never forget how you spoke of destiny to me when we were by the little island. It was then, I think, that I felt it was my fate to link myself with Claude, to help him on. Do you remember what you said?"
"That perhaps it was designed that you should teach Mr. Heath."
"Don't say mister—on such a day as this!"
"Claude, then."
"And, Susan, I don't want to seem vain, but I have taught him, I have taught him to know and rely on himself, to believe in himself, in his genius, to dominate. He's marvellously changed. Everyone notices it. You do, of course!"
"There is a change. And I remember saying that perhaps it was designed that you should learn from him. Do you recollect that?"
Charmian was handing Susan her tea-cup.