"You didn't know I was here?" "I've seen him but twice," said Fleda.!

"Not a word." "You should have told her, you know, that I had seen you in town only that one time," Fleda observed.

"Well, I am, and I'm the person most concerned. Of course I didn't use just those words: I was perfectly civil, quite as civil as she. But I told her I didn't consider she had a right to put me any such question. I said I wasn't sure that even Mona had, with the extraordinary line, you know, that Mona has taken. At any rate the whole thing, the way I put it, was between Mona and me; and between Mona and me, if she didn't mind, it would just have to remain." Owen looked out into Raphael Road. "She did care for me awfully. But she can't stand the strain." "But she'll only have been here a few minutes. What sort of a visit is that?" Fleda cried.