‘I need hardly say that I at least do not doubt the sincerity of your arguments.’
‘Nevertheless, I was not altogether sincere,’ he answered.
She was silent.
‘Then why should you have delivered such a defence of me?’ she asked with simple curiosity.
Somerset involuntarily looked in her face for his answer.
Paula again teased the necklace. ‘Would you have spoken so eloquently on the other side if I—if occasion had served?’ she inquired shyly.
‘Perhaps I would.’
Another pause, till she said, ‘I, too, was insincere.’
‘You?’
‘I was.’