Anyhow Evie said, 'Oh, go along and don't be a silly.... Are you coming in to-night?'
He said 'No' and laughed.
Then they saw Alix turning into Violette.
'There now,' said Evie. 'She must have seen you going on. Couldn't have missed it.... Whatever will she think?'
'She won't think anything,' said Basil Doye. 'Alix is a nice person, and minds her own business.'
'I believe it's her you're in love with really,' said Evie, teasing him.
He kissed her again, and said, 'Oh, do you?'
After a little more of the like conversation, which will easily be imagined, they parted. Evie went into Violette. She ran upstairs and into her dark bedroom and flung off her outdoor things. Turning, she saw Alix sitting on the edge of her bed.
'Goodness, how you startled me,' said Evie.
'Sorry,' said Alix. 'Got a toothache.' She was holding her face between her hands.