“I hope you made it pay you.”
“A few hundreds.”
“Ah! Then you would not mind the expense of a cab.”
“Do I ever mind necessary trifles?”
“I have never considered the matter,” and the little laugh of indifference which closed the sentence, made him look at her attentively.
She was in full evening costume, and it struck him that tonight she looked almost handsome.
“Did you intend to go out this evening? Has my coming home prevented some social pleasure?”
“I had told Reginald to meet me in my box at Glover’s Theater. Reginald is a social pleasure no woman would willingly miss.”
“I do not approve of Reginald Rath, and I would rather you did not invite him to our box. His presence there, you know, would assuredly preclude mine.”