"It never did, particularly. What a long time it is since we have seen each other. I am glad you came."
Seated, she asked the butler to remove the flowers which interrupted her view of Quarren.
"You haven't said anything about my personal appearance," she observed. "Am I very much battered by my merry bouts with pleasure?"
"Not much."
"You wretch! Do you mean to say that I am marked at all?"
"You look rather tired, Mrs. Leeds."
"I know I do. By daylight it's particularly visible.... But—do you mind?"
Her charming head was bent over her grapefruit: she lifted her gray eyes under level brows, looking across the table at him.
"I mind anything that concerns you," he said.
"I mean—are you disappointed because I'm growing old and haggard?"