"But I can't understand your retaliating that way, if you didn't believe what you said.

And if you believed it, what more is there to say ?" Janet felt herself possessed by an intense sensation of playing for stakes, unusual, exciting, and of some personal importance.

She did not pause to regard her attitude from any other point of view; she succumbed at once, not without enjoyment, to the necessity for diplomacy.

Under its rush of suggestions her conscience was only vaguely restive.

To-morrow it would assert itself; unconsciously she put off paying attention to it until then.