“I said I supposed you could get a better job if you tried.”
He did not like this tone either.
“Well, whether I could or not,” he said, “this is no way. I’m losing my hold of my men.”
“Oh, I can’t imagine your doing that, Burke.”
He turned on her to see if she were really daring to laugh at him, and met an eye as steady as his own.
“I guess I’m wasting my time here,” he said, and something intimated that some one would pay for that expenditure.
“Shall I take a message to Mr. Farron for you?” said Adelaide.
He nodded.
“Yes. Tell him that if I’m to go, I’ll go to-day.”
“I see.” She rose slowly, as if in response to a vague, amusing caprice. “Just that. If you go, you’ll go to-day.”