Don, watching her, suddenly recognised that he could trust himself to pursue this conversation no further. "Tell me why you wanted to see Orlando James again," he said.
Flamby looked up quickly, and Don's hands clenched themselves in his pockets when he saw her tear-stained face. "I am afraid," she replied, "to tell you—now."
"Why are you afraid now, Flamby?"
"Because you will think——"
"I shall think nothing unworthy of you, Flamby."
"I went," said Flamby, twisting a little lace handkerchief in her hands, "because I was afraid—for Paul."
"For Paul!"
"You are beginning to wonder already."
"I am beginning to wonder but not to doubt. In what way were you afraid?"
"He is so sure."