At last he spoke again.

"Is your objection to my society this evening caused by your expectation of another visitor ?" She turned her head with a glance of her clear, fair eyes.

"Another visitor?
What visitor should I have ?" He had none to suggest; which made his question seem to himself silly as well as brutal.

"You've a great many friends that I don't know.

You've a whole past from which I was perversely excluded." "You were reserved for my future.