"Didn't you want to be kissed?" I asked bluntly. "I had perhaps surmised that it might not be a disagreeable sensation. Was it?"
She seemed to have recovered her careless audacity, and now she laughed.
"At all events," she said, "I shall not repeat the experiment ... this evening." She laid one soft hand in mine with a gay little smile: "Let us enjoy our new friendship serenely and without undue emotion," she said. "And let me tell you how you have made me laugh at what you said to those absurd Prussians!"
We both laughed, but I was now on my guard with this girl who had come here in such company.
"No Prussian ever born ever knew how to make a friend," she said. "To-day they have the whole world against them—even your country——"
"I am Chilean," said I pleasantly.
"Are you really?"
"I think you and your friends are quite sure of that," said I drily.
"Suppose," she said in a lower voice, "I tell you that they are not my friends?"
I smiled.