The touch at her wrist brings her attention from the page—briefly, as she has already made a move to make a new note on her the pages she has laid before her. It takes a most definitive double take for her to get as far as marking the exact, nearly comically sober expression he has adopted.
Wysteria sets the page aside.
"Why Mister Ellis, you look as if I've told you someone has died. Surely it comes as no surprise that—"
She abruptly grinds to a halt.
And then she colors a very bright red.
"Oh! I forgot entirely to tell you, didn't I? Ack, Maud will be so mortified. You mustn't say anything to her on the subject. I shouldn't like to look so foolish. It was entirely incidental—Oh! But that means you thought I would have de Foncé as my husband properly! Oh really, Mister Ellis."
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Wysteria sets the page aside.
"Why Mister Ellis, you look as if I've told you someone has died. Surely it comes as no surprise that—"
She abruptly grinds to a halt.
And then she colors a very bright red.
"Oh! I forgot entirely to tell you, didn't I? Ack, Maud will be so mortified. You mustn't say anything to her on the subject. I shouldn't like to look so foolish. It was entirely incidental—Oh! But that means you thought I would have de Foncé as my husband properly! Oh really, Mister Ellis."