It was on her lips to say, "What was it ?" when he added, "I saw your husband." Her wonder was at once replaced by the more subtle quality of suspicion.
"Yes," she said, cautiously, "was it pleasant?
He did not tell me much about it." "Very.

Really one of the best private theatricals I ever attended.

There was one actress who surprised us all." "Indeed," said Mrs.Hurstwood.
"It's too bad you couldn't have been there, really.

I was sorry to hear you weren't feeling well." Feeling well! Mrs.Hurstwood could have echoed the words after him open-mouthed.

As it was, she extricated herself from her mingled impulse to deny and question, and said, almost raspingly: "Yes, it is too bad." "Looks like there will be quite a crowd here to-day, doesn't it ?" the acquaintance observed, drifting off upon another topic.
The manager's wife would have questioned farther, but she saw no opportunity.