"It is," she answered demurely, "between some people."
"People who know how to make the time pass?" he suggested.
"People who are—engaged," she said, with as much indifference to the immediate and personal application as she could assume.
"Well," he rejoined flippantly, "you are engaged, and I may be."
"Mr. Gage!" She turned on him indignantly. "I am not engaged."
"Not to Sharnbrook?"
"Mr. Gage, how absurd you are."
"I hope so. Are you engaged?" he asked significantly.
"Whether I am engaged or free," she answered, "it is all the same to you."
"No," he returned, "if you were a little more free it would be quite different."