“Not less than six months in all. Certainly not less. That’s another point against—”
“Yes, against the idea, because in any case you don’t want to go. But suppose the circumstances had been different; suppose it was a case that for various reasons very much attracted you; would you have gone?”
Harry said indifferently, “Oh, no doubt, no doubt.”
“Although it would have taken you from home six months—or more? You’d not have minded that?”
He laughed delightedly. “Ah, ha! I was beginning to wonder what you were driving at. You’re a regular lawyer, Rosalie; you led me on and then caught me out properly.”
His amusement was not reflected by her. She said with a certain insistence, “But you wouldn’t have minded?”
He laughed again. “The judge ruled that the question was admissible and must be answered. Well, minded—I’d have minded, of course, very much in a way. I’m a home bird. I’d have hated being away the best part of a year. But there you are. If the call was strong enough, there you are; it would have been business.”
She indrew a long breath. “That’s it. It would have been business.”
There was then a pause.
Harry, who had been talking lightly, then said slowly, “Rosalie, is there something behind this?”