'Don't bother about my feelings, will you?' she replied, satirically.
'I have no intention of doing so,' he smiled.
Mrs. Crowley was obliged to laugh at the neatness with which he had entrapped her. Or had he fallen into the trap which she had set for him? She really did not quite know.
'If your object in thus abducting me was to talk, hadn't you better do so?' she asked. 'I hope you will endeavour to be not only amusing but instructive.'
'I wanted to point out to you that it is not civil pointedly to ignore a man who is sitting next to you at luncheon.'
'Did I do that? I'm so sorry. But I know you're greedy, and I thought you'd be absorbed in the lobster mayonnaise.'
'I'm beginning to think I dislike you rather than otherwise,' he murmured reflectively.
'Ah, I suppose that is why you haven't been in to see me for so long.'
'May I venture to remind you that I've called upon you three times during the last week.'
'I've been out so much lately,' she answered, with a little wave of her hand.