“Perfectly,” I smiled.
“——that one of them was unnecessary. It was such fun to play those pranks on you, Joseph! I couldn’t help it. I know it was wicked, but you were always gentle and kind, and I knew you would forgive me. Joseph, you would forgive me anything, wouldn’t you?”
“Yes, dear heart.”
“It was delicious to see you walking so trustingly through the complications that beset you.”
“Dear!” I cried, my senses afloat and my arms aching for her; “I am only human. Your sweetness——”
She pushed back her chair before my advance.
“And you don’t know in the least,” she went flying on, “how often I had to leap from one of my selves to the other, and how exciting it was.”
I was getting little out of her chatter except the music of her voice and the picture of loveliness that she made.
“Don’t you care to know which of the deceptions was unnecessary?” she demanded, trying to look injured.
“Indeed I do.”