"You've a lot of 'em, haven't you, Miss Nevers?"
"No, not many."
He shrugged: "I wonder, then, what a quantitative analysis of mine might produce."
She said: "You are as clever as you take the trouble to be—" and stopped herself short, unwilling to drift into personalities.
"It's the interest that is lacking in me," he said, "—or perhaps the incentive."
She made no comment.
"Don't you think so?"
"I don't know."
"—And don't care," he added.
She flushed, half turned in protest, but remained silent.