II
When the maid went up with the Judge's coffee next morning, she found him already fully dressed.
"Tell O'Neil I'll have the car at once," he said quietly.
"But Miss Wolcott, sir, she's...."
"At once, please."
In relaying the order to the chauffeur the maid volunteered the interesting information that she had left the Judge swallowing his breakfast with unprecedented haste, and that the newspaper had not been unfolded. The chauffeur, having designs of a serious nature upon her, was obliged to conceal his natural repugnance to haste, disassociated from a motor: but he consoled himself with the other part of her message. It was not unpleasant to discover in the lady of one's choice such evidence of keen perception. He went to his task whistling.