Di repaid to Ellen a bit of her debt of reticence by refraining from overquestioning; verbally, they dropped it, but it dwelt unmentioned between them, disturbing Di.
For Di, too, had been making of Ellen a reliance; and Di discerned that it was not merely that Lew Alban had sent Ellen flowers but that Ellen had done something to deserve them on the day before this upon which she stayed in her room, Lew being at the office.
