"Three times, you know, is usually considered significant," he added laughingly. "It doesn't dismay you, does it?"
She laughed, resting her cheek against the upholstered wing of her chair and looked at him with shy but undisguised pleasure.
"You haven't changed a single bit, Athalie," he declared.
"No, I haven't changed."
"Do you remember our last meeting—on the Elevated?"
"Yes."
"Lord!" he said; "that was four years ago. Do you realise it?"
"Yes."
A slight colour grew on his cheeks.
"I was a piker, wasn't I?"