"I'm delighted, personally, of course." "Then do you mean to say--you actually told her--I was as much in earnest as you were ?" Bob Evers smiled openly in my face; it was the only revenge he ever took; and even it was tempered by the inextinguishable sweetness of expression and the childlike wide-eyed candour which were Bob's even in the hour of his humiliation, and will be, one hopes, all his days.
"Not in so many words," he said, "but I am afraid I did tell her in effect.

You see, I took you at your word.

I thought it was quite true.
I'm awfully sorry, Duncan.

But it really does serve you right!" I made no answer.

I was looking at the suit-case on the bed.