'What did you feel for him?' said Rollo quite innocently.
'You have asked all your questions. I think it would be proper now,' said Wych Hazel, folding her hands and controlling the curling lips, 'that you should go on and tell me all there is to be told, and save me the trouble of asking any more.'
'I do not wish to save you the trouble.'
'It is good practice occasionally to do what you do not wish.
Instructive. And full of suggestion.'
'Suggestion of what?'
'Try, and you will know. I doubt if you ever did try,' said
Wych Hazel.
'I tried it last night and yesterday morning, when I was turned away from your door with the announcement that you were out.'
'But you did not leave your name!' said Hazel, looking up.
'I found it "suggestive" too,' Rollo went on. 'I do not know whether you would like me to tell you all the things which it suggested.'
'How is everybody else at home?' said Hazel, changing her ground. 'I heard Miss May had been sick.'