"But I know Mrs.Adair very well by name.

I know friends of yours, Mrs.Adair--Durrance, for instance; and of course I knew--" A glance from Ethne brought him abruptly to a stop.

He began vigorously to push the nose of his boat from the sand.
"Of course, what ?" asked Mrs.Adair, with a smile.
"Of course I knew of you, Mrs.Adair." Mrs.Adair was quite clear that this was not what Willoughby had been on the point of saying when Ethne turned her eyes quietly upon him and cut him short.

He was on the point of adding another name.

"Captain Willoughby," she repeated to herself.