“I wanted you to anticipate the worst and not be disappointed by our best,” he said. “Is that not always the wisest way of tackling things?”
Sheena considered this idea seriously.
“No, I don’t really think so,” she said at length. “I hate anticipating the worst. I always believe that everything is going to be wonderful until it turns out differently.”
“You must have an awful lot of disappointments.”
“Not many. Paris, for instance, is just as wonderful as I expected it to be.”
“But you have not seen anything of Paris yet,” Colonel Mansfield answered. “Perhaps one day – ”
He checked himself suddenly and she wondered what he had been going to say.
Then he rose to his feet and stood looking down at her.
“I wondered when I first saw you,” he said at length, “why you looked so un-English
