"You still hold me to my promise--after yesterday?"
"Why not?" she said, a little blankly.
"Why, I thought we were well off the island--at least _you_ were. I
thought that you had given up the game."
"Why?" she asked, looking at me directly, in seeming surprise. "I think
you must have mistaken my meaning."
I couldn't quite get it. "You asked me all sorts of questions, anyway,
you know," I ventured.