“You met Lowndes in Rome, didn’t you?” Tarr asked him.
Kreisler nodded.
“Have you seen Fräulein Lunken to-day?”
“No.” As Tarr was coming to the point Kreisler condescended to speak: “I shall see her to-morrow morning.”
A space for protest or comment seemed to be left after this sentence, in Kreisler’s still very “speaking” expression.
Tarr smiled at the tone of this piece of information. Kreisler at once grinned, mockingly, in return.
“You can get out of your head any idea that I have turned up to interfere with your proceedings,” Tarr then said. “Affairs lie entirely between Fräulein Lunken and yourself.”
Kreisler met this assurance truculently.
“You could not interfere with my proceedings. I do what I want to do in this life!”