"Well, perhaps you've suffered enough.

But you can see now, can't you, that it would have been awful if I had met him, and let out that I didn't know he was here ?" "Terrible.

But if I had told, it would have spoiled the whole morning for you; you couldn't have thought of anything else." "Oh, I don't know," she said, airily.

"What should you think if I told you I had known he was here ever since last night ?" She went on in delight at the start he gave.

"I saw him come into the hotel while you were gone for the guide-books, and I determined to keep it from you as long as I could; I knew it would worry you.