"With Moore?" The doctor, surprised, repeated her words.
"Yes. I—didn't know—they weren't friends."
Something in her hesitation gave her visitor an opportunity to ask: "You do not care very much for the Honorable William?"
"No, I do not!" came the quick response.
"Yet he is accounted quite a ladies' man; and," tentatively, "I can see that he is quite infatuated."
"He can get un-infatuated," interrupted Winifred, with no pretense of misunderstanding.
The doctor was pleased at this outburst. He had been an observer of advances and repulses between these two. Now he was thinking of another affair whose recent complications were giving him much concern.
"You wouldn't call him a gentleman?"
"Oh, no. He's a politician."
"That's rather hard on the rest of us who are dabbling in politics."