BELINDA. Oh, I'm so glad! When I saw it sitting there I thought you'd love it. I'm afraid I can't tell you any more about the rest of the dinner, because I wouldn't tell Mr. Devenish, and I want to be fair. TREMAYNE. Who's Mr. Devenish? BELINDA. Oh, haven't you met him? He's always coming here. TREMAYNE Is he in love with you too? BELINDA. Too? Oh, you mean Mr. Baxter. TREMAYNE. Confound it, that's three! BELINDA (innocently). Three? (She looks up at him and down again.) TREMAYNE. Who is Mr. Baxter? BELINDA. Oh, haven't you met him? He's always coming here. TREMAYNE. Who is Mr. Baxter? BELINDA. Oh, he's a sort of statistician. Isn't that a horrid word to say? So stishany. TREMAYNE. What does he make statistics about? BELINDA. Oh, umbrellas and things. Don't let's talk about him. TREMAYNE. All right, then; who is Mr. Devenish? BELINDA. Oh, he's a poet. (She throws up her eyes and sighs deeply.) Ah me! TREMAYNE. What does he write poetry about? (BELINDA looks at him, and down again, and then at him again, and then down, and gives a little sigh--all of which means, "Can't you guess?") What does he write poetry about? BELINDA (obediently). He wrote "The Lute of Love and other Poems, by Claude Devenish." The Lute of Love--(To herself.) I haven't been saying that lately. (With great expression.) The Lute of Love--the Lute. (She pats her mouth back.) TREMAYNE. And what is Mr. Devenish-- BELINDA (putting her hand on his sleeve). You'll let me know when it's my turn, won't you? TREMAYNE. Your turn? BELINDA. Yes, to ask questions. I love this game--it's like clumps. (She crosses her hands on her lap and waits for the next question.) TREMAYNE. I beg your pardon. I--er--of course have no right to cross-examine you like this. BELINDA. Oh, do go on, I love it. (With childish excitement.) I've got my question ready. TREMAYNE (smiling). I think perhaps it _is_ your turn. BELINDA (eagerly). Is it really? (He nods.) Well then--_who_ is Mr. Robinson? TREMAYNE (alarmed). What? BELINDA. I think it's a fair question. I met you three days ago and you told me you were staying at Mariton. Mariton. You can say it all right now, can't you? TREMAYNE. I think so. BELINDA (coaxingly). Just say it. TREMAYNE. Mariton. BELINDA (clapping her hands). Lovely! I don't think any of the villagers do it as well as that. TREMAYNE. Well? BELINDA. Well, that was three days ago. You came the next day to see the garden, and you came the day after to see the garden, and you've come this morning--to see the garden; and you're coming to dinner to-night, and it's so lovely, we shall simply have to go into the garden afterwards. And all I know about you is that you _haven't_ any relations called Robinson. TREMAYNE. What do I know about Mrs. Tremayne but that she _has_ a relation called Robinson? BELINDA. And two dear friends called Devenish and Baxter. TREMAYNE (annoyed). I was forgetting them. BELINDA (to herself). I mustn't forget Mr. Baxter.