"Perfectly, thanks."
"Then why didn't you remain at my request?"
"I didn't care to."
"But I asked you," she said, surprised.
"Yes, I know you did."
"Well?" she asked, astonished.
He had been looking away from her out over the misty moonlit river. Now he turned.
"Lillian," he said, "do you honestly care for me?"
"Billy, what a question!"
"Yes, it's one kind of question.... Do you?"