"Were you serious ?" "Certainly," she answered.

Then, with an air of one who did not intentionally mean to create trouble, "He came lots of times.

I thought you knew." The game of deception was up with Drouet.

He did not try to simulate indifference further.
"Did he spend the evenings here ?" he asked.
"Sometimes.

Sometimes they went out." "In the evening ?" "Yes.