I was gazing at Suzee.
"Do you have any time to yourself?" I asked her. "Later in the evening perhaps when you could come for a walk with me."
Suzee looked up. There was surprise in those wonderful eyes, but I thought I saw pleasure too.
"At six," she said. "I close the restaurant for a short time, but I don't walk, I smoke and go to sleep. But I will come with you if it is not too far," she added as an after-thought.
Morley gave a whistle, indicative of surprise and disapproval, but I answered composedly.
"Very well, I shall come here at six; so don't be asleep and fail to let me in!"
Suzee laughed and shook her head, and we picked up our hats and went out of the little room into the passage. In the outer court, as we passed through, we saw most of the tables occupied, and an elderly woman serving.
"We had the best of it," I remarked.
"Yes, rather. But you are going ahead with that girl. Do be careful or you'll have the old terror of a husband down on you."
"You introduced me," I returned laughing. "You have all the responsibility."