"I thought so."

"Why?" he asked.

"Oh, I suppose it was one of those obsessed premonitions——"

"You are laughing at me, Miss Gay."

"Am I? Why?"

"Why? How on earth is a man to know why? I don't know why you do it, but you do—all the time."

"Not all the time, Mr. Seabury, because I don't know you well enough."

"But you know my sister!"

"Yes. She is a dear."

"Won't that introduce me? And, besides, you know Jack Austin——"