"Not so, sir; that time you did not look," she said, and stepped out
into the light. Then I took her back to Lady Radnor.
"Don't be disconsolate, Major," she said, as we parted. "No one saw
you--on the terrace."
I looked down at her gravely. "I am beginning to hope someone did," I
said.
She shot a quick glance at me over her fan. "Are you tired of Dornlitz
so soon?" she asked.
"I think I want to stay in Dornlitz," I answered.
"But the alternative, Major, the alternative."
"That is why I want to stay."
She smiled. "You did that very prettily," she said. "I shall forgive
you the--the kiss."
"But if someone saw it?" I protested.
"You great stupid," she exclaimed, "no one did. Do you think I didn't
look?"
"Oh!" said I. "Oh!"
"Sometimes you men are very foolish," she sympathized.
I looked at her a bit in silence. "You have changed since America," I
remarked.
"For the better?"