It's even conceivable that she found you dull, Amy." Amy looked at him with a strange penetrating glance that in some undefined way increased his irritation.

"It's quite possible," she said quietly.

"But I don't think even you, Martin, can call her handsome.

As to her intelligence, she never gave me a chance of judging." "I've been there several times," said Martin hotly.

"I like her immensely." He felt as soon as he had spoken that it had been a foolish thing to say.