‘Oh Frank!’she gasped. ‘A woman's hair!Whose is it?’
Troy closed the watch immediately and replied carelessly,‘Why,yours of course. I'd quite forgotten I had it. ’
‘You're lying,Frank. It's yellow hair. Mine is darker. ’
‘Well,all right,if I must tell you,it's the hair of a young woman I was going to marry before I met you. ’
‘Tell me her name!Is she married?’
‘I can't tell you her name,but she's single. ’
‘Is she alive?Is she pretty?’
‘Yes to both questions. ’