"Does it matter so very much?  Surely you don't mind my company?  The party isn't nearly over and I am glad of it."  Lucy thought that her interesting house guest might be tired of dancing and using the excuse to ask the time, to get out of it.  "Did you want to site down for awhile, or we could walk in the hedge maze.  Lucy desperately hoped that she wasn't boring her guest, for she liked her very much.