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Next day, and for several days following, Henriot kept out of the path of Lady Statham and her nephew. The acquaintanceship had grown too rapidly to be quite comfortable. It was easy to pretend that he took people at their face value, but it was a pose; one liked to know something of antecedents. It was otherwise difficult to "place" them.
And Henriot, for the life of him, could not "place" these two. His Subconsciousness brought explanation when it came--but the Subconsciousness is only temporarily active. When it retired he floundered without a rudder, in confusion.