She suffered the hand that grasped her own.
"Look here!" he said abruptly, as they drew apart from the throng. "I've
got to see more of you somehow. Have you been dodging me all this time?"
"I?" said Toby.
She met his eyes with a funny little chuckle. There was spontaneous
mischief in his own.
He gave her hand an admonitory squeeze. "I'm not laughing. You're not
playing the game. What's the good of my coming to the house to see you if
we never meet?"
"Don't understand," said Toby briefly.
"Yes, you do. Or you can if you try. You never seem to have any liberty
now-a-days. Is it Maud's doing or your own?"
Toby laughed again lightly and bafflingly. "I can do anything I want to
do," she said.
"Oh, can you?" Bunny pounced. "Then you've got to meet me sometimes away
from the rest. See? Come! That's only fair."
Toby made a face at him. "Suppose I don't want to?" she said.
He laughed into her eyes. "Don't tell me that! When and where?"
She laughed back. He was hard to resist. "I don't know. I'm too busy."
"Rot!" said Bunny.
"You're very rude," she remarked.
"I'll be ruder when I get the chance," he laughed. "Listen, I want to see
you alone very badly. You're not going to let me down.
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