"She looked away and paused before answering.
"'I see,' she remarked, though what she saw I did not quite comprehend at the moment. It seemed a strange comment to make.
"'Oh, come!' I said. 'Don't say you're not interested.'
"'How did it happen?' she enquired, looking at her shoe.
"I told her. She turned her foot about as though examining it, her slender hands clasped on her lap. She had an air of being occupied with some problem in which I had no part.
"'And the message?' she said at length. I gave her that, too, briefly, and without any colouring of my own. She put one leg over the other, clasping her knee with her hands, and bent forward, looking suddenly at me from under bent brows.
"'What can I do?' she demanded in a low tone.
"'But don't you see,' I returned. 'He's in love with you.'
"She gave a faint shrug of the shoulders and uttered a sound of amusement.
"'Then you are indifferent?' I asked, annoyed.