“She asked me the time.”
“Casually?”
“Not as if she were making it a pretext to open a conversation, if that is what you mean.”
“It is.”
“Certainly it wasn’t that. She seemed anxious to know. In fact, I think she used the word ‘exact’; ‘the exact time,’ she said.”
“Presumably she was on her way to an appointment, then.”
“Very likely. When I told her, she seemed relieved; I might even say relaxed. As if from the strain of nervous haste, you know.”
“Good. And then?”
“She thanked me, and asked if I were Mr. Sedgwick. I answered that I was, and suggested that she make good by completing the introduction.”
“She wasn’t a woman of your own class, then?”