He shook his head slowly.
"Then may I ask why you came?"
"I don't think I shall tell you that."
"Do you think I don't know?" she asked with a sudden fierceness.
"I really haven't thought whether you knew or not."
"You came to get just what you did get—the full savor of the humiliation of my position."
"My God," he answered coolly, "and they say women have intuition!"
His tone, as much as his words, irritated her, and she did not want to be irritated. She raised her chin.
"It doesn't really matter why you came, at least not to me. Let me tell you why I sent for you to-night."
But he was pursuing his own train of thought and did not seem to hear her.