Honora laughed.
"I hadn't noticed anything peculiar about him," she answered.
"This boat reminds me of Adele," said Mrs. Shorter. "She loved it. I can see how she could get a divorce from Dicky—but the 'Folly'! She told me yesterday that the sight of it made her homesick, and Eustace Rindge won't leave Paris."
It suddenly occurred to Honora, as she glanced around the yacht, that
Mrs. Rindge rather haunted her.
"So that is your answer," said Chiltern, when they were alone again.
"What other can I give you?"
"Is it because you are married?" he demanded.
She grew crimson.
"Isn't that an unnecessary question?"
"No," he declared. "It concerns me vitally to understand you. You were good enough to wish that I should find happiness. I have found the possibility of it—in you."