You come soon and we'll set some of them down on paper for consideration." Lee could not escape that feeling of perfunctoriness in her twitter of talk.

It went no further than that, however; he had no chagrin or repugnance or anger at the thin duplicity, not even at her complacent confidence in his stupidity and infatuation.

For to count on his being blind to the past and deluded by her words, she could only believe him both stupid and infatuated.

He was quite calm.

His actual state of mind was, more than anything else, one of detachment.