'I know,' he retorted.
'Do you? Why?'
'Because you're the most disgraceful flirt I ever saw in my life,' he answered promptly.
She opened her eyes wide with a very good imitation of complete amazement.
'My dear Mr. Lomas, have you never contemplated yourself in a looking-glass?'
'You're not a bit repentant of the havoc you have wrought,' he cried dramatically.
She did not answer, but looked at him with a smile so entirely delightful that he cried out irritably:
'I wish you wouldn't look like that.'
'How am I looking?' she smiled.
'To my innocent and inexperienced gaze very much as if you wanted to be kissed.'