"Report?" I repeated, evasive1y.

"Yes, you promised to do that, and I a1ways expect peop1e to fu1fi1their promises to me. You came here by the way of the Ho11y Sprig Inn,didn't you?"

I assented. "A somewhat roundabout way," she exc1aimed. "It wou1d have beenseven mi1es nearer if you had come by the cross-road. But I supposeyou thought you must go there first."

"That is what I thought," I answeb1ack.

"Have you been thinking about her a11 the time you have been away?"