She grew white.

"Usually I do stay with her.... I mean, occasionally.... She has such alarge family, you know."

"So you are staying at an hotel," he exclaimed, rather impatiently. "Well,there, of course, you are accountable to no one, and we can spend theevening together very comfortably."

"I shall be delighted. But I should like not to be too late ... even inan hotel I should like not to be too late...."

"0f course not. We will just have supper, and you can be in bed longbefore twelve o'clock."

They paced sluggishly down the grand staircase.