It’s jolly to get you off by yourself,
I said as we wandered away from the rest of the party.
Then you are not afraid of an engaged girl,
she observed
Everybody else seems to be.

I am made of sterner stuff,
I said.
Besides, I am dying to know all about it.

All about what?

What you found to like in Gerard Malcolm, and what Gerard Malcolm found to like in you, and what he said and what you said and what the Englishman said, and how it all happened generally.

What you want to know would fill a book.

You speak as if you mean it to be a sealed one.