"Hullo! so you've changed your mind?"
"I suppose that is allowable."
"Where does she live?" Jimmy persisted.
"Wild horses wouldn't drag her address from me!" cried Carrissima, laughing quite cheerfully, "and kindly give me back the card-case."
He came to a standstill close to Colonel Faversham's house as he put it back in her hand.
"Now, I'm off," he said. "That's all I was waiting for."
"What?" asked Carrissima.
"To hear you laugh again."
"Jimmy," she said, "I sometimes wonder whether your inveterate cheerfulness is the sign of a shallow mind!"
"Oh well, you see, it's one of the few useful things I can do," he answered. "To swing a light about."