If you are going to be stupid, good night!" But she made no movement to go.

...

"Yes, then; I have avoided you.

And it doesn't become you to ask why." "Because I kissed you ?" "You hint at the true reason so chivalrously, so delicately," she said, "that I scarcely recognise it." The cool mockery of her voice and the warm, quick colour tinting neck and face were incongruous.

He thought with slow surprise that she was not yet letter-perfect in her role of the material triumphant over the spiritual.