Their eyes met a minute and he added: "But I didn't." Then he exclaimed: "How you've worked it!" She looked barely conscious.

"'Worked it' ?" After which, with a slightly sharper note: "How do you know--while you've been amusing yourself in places that I'd give my head to see again but never shall--what I've been doing ?" "Well, I saw, you know, that night at Tishy's, just before we left England, your wonderful start.

I got a look at your attitude, as it were, and your system." Her eyes were now far away, and she spoke after an instant without moving them.

"And didn't I by the same token get a look at yours ?" "Mine ?" Mitchy thought, but seemed to doubt.

"My dear child, I hadn't any then." "You mean that it has formed itself--your system--since ?" He shook his head with decision.