"Oh, no," she answered with a little laugh, "because I remembered you perfectly well."
"Remembered me!" he cried. "And you danced with me, and said you didn't remember, and let me take you aside, and——"
He moved swiftly nearer until his face was close to hers, until he stared into her eyes that he could barely see.
"Why did you do that?"
She didn't answer.
"Why do you tell me now?" he urged with an increasing excitement.
Such a confession from her had the quality of a caress! He felt himself reaching up to touch the summit.
"Why? You've got to answer me."
She arose with easy grace and stood looking down at him.
"Because," she said, "I want you to stop being ridiculous and troublesome; and, really, the whole thing seems so unimportant now that I am going to be married."