He leaned against the jamb for a moment, then went on to his bedroom.
"I'm afraid that breakfast was too much for him," the nurse ventured.
"An odd young man." "Very," replied Kitty, rather absently.

She was trying to analyze that flash of shyness.
Meantime, Cutty sat down before the telephone.

He wanted Kitty out of town during his absence.

In her present excitable mood he was afraid to trust her.

She might surrender to any mad impulse that stirred her fancy.