"Oh. Then you really were in your right senses last night?" she inquired.
"Certainly. Were you?"
"Well, for a little while I seemed to have lost the power of thinking. But after that I was intensely, consciously, deeply interested and profoundly curious." He could hear her laughing.
"Curious about what?" he demanded.
"About your state of mind, Jim. The situation was such a novelty, too. I was trying to comprehend it—trying to consider what a girl should do in such a curious emergency."
"Emergency?" he repeated.
"Certainly. Do you fancy I'm accustomed to such novelties as you introduced me to last night?"
"What do you think about them now?"
"I'm slightly ashamed of us both. We were rather silly, you know——"
"You were not," he interrupted drily.