"I wish you wouldn't ask
so many questions."
"I can't help it," he replied. "An inquiring turn of mind, you know.
I haven't forgotten that Sybil is to pay your friend a visit directly
she gets back."
"Indeed, there is not the slightest necessity," said Carrissima.
"Hullo! so you've changed your mind?"
"I suppose that is allowable."
"Where does she live?" Jimmy persisted.
"Wild horses wouldn't drag her address from me!" cried Carrissima,
laughing quite cheerfully, "and kindly give me back the card-case."
He came to a standstill close to Colonel Faversham's house as he put it
back in her hand.
"Now, I'm off," he said. "That's all I was waiting for."
"What?" asked Carrissima.
"To hear you laugh again."
"Jimmy," she said, "I sometimes wonder whether your inveterate
cheerfulness is the sign of a shallow mind!"
"Oh well, you see, it's one of the few useful things I can do," he
answered. "To swing a light about."
"Still, it isn't always safe to go full speed ahead," she suggested.
"Oh dear, no," said Jimmy. "We all have to put the brakes hard on now
and then; but the fact remains that a coward dies a hundred deaths, you
know.
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