He sat on the terrace in the moonlight with them afterwards, joking, telling them stories, and eating chocolates with the rest.
"Well," nonchalantly, "I just said that at the Admiralty men always kept their secretaries well-supplied with flowers and chocolates."
She selected a tiny key from the bunch at her waist and, opening the case, took out a box, a little cardboard box, which had once contained chocolates.