He laughed in spite of himself.
“Do you really wish to entertain me?”
“I do,” she said seriously.
“Then please perform some of those tricks of magic which you can do so amazingly well.”
Her dawning smile faded a trifle. “I don’t—I haven’t——” She hesitated.
“You haven’t your professional paraphernalia with you,” he suggested.
“Oh—as for that——”
“Don’t you need it?”
“For some things—some kinds of things.... I could do—other things——”
He waited. She seemed disconcerted. “Don’t do anything you don’t wish to do, Tressa,” he said.