Nibbetts recognized him, too. He shrugged his hulking shoulders and thrust his handful of coins back into his pocket. Then he turned to the housemaid again.
"I understand," he said in his penetrating undertone. "I quite understand. Mrs. Darling sees no one."
Then he reopened the outer door and stalked lumberingly away.
CHAPTER XXIV
The Disinterested Married Man
There was a house-party at Puddlewood, and all the kinsfolk and friends who haunted Bellingdown were there.
"Who's seen Nina?" asked the duchess.
"No one," answered Waltheof laconically.
"Too bad, when she's so entertaining," said the duke. "I always say there's no one like Nina. I say, Doody, don't I say there's nobody like Nina?"